When Your Year-End Move Actually Gets Decided

The two paths into Q4 calibrations and where each path consistently fails when senior professionals try to do it alone.

Tuesday’s article was about the timing reality of year-end moves. The conversations that determine who moves at year-end start in August or September. The positioning work that puts you in those conversations takes three to four months sequentially, or eight to ten weeks in parallel with structure. Two paths into Q4 calibrations work. The one that does not work is starting the slow path alone in September.

If you read Tuesday’s article and recognized yourself in the position of having to choose a path, the natural next thought is some version of “okay, so which one is mine.”

This piece is about what consistently happens when senior professionals try to make that call alone, and what the failure modes look like for both paths when no one outside the system is catching the misreads.

The decision about which path you are on is the H2 work for the next two weeks. Start here.

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