Launch Your New Career: Leading Turnarounds And How It Shaped My Career

Charlie Gilkey
2 min readSep 23, 2021

Leading through a turnaround or big mess scenario creates springboards for your career. In today’s atomic essay, I share the two most significant big mess scenarios that shaped my career.

In The CEO Next Door, the authors note that one of the three major career catapults for executives is the Big Mess. They state

“[T]he person who solves it will prove her ability to Reliably Deliver where someone else failed. To clean up a big mess, an executive must have the ability to figure out

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Charlie Gilkey

Author of Team Habits - http://www.productiveflourishing.com/team-habits/ - and the best-selling Start Finishing. Executive coach, investor, and philospher.