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What it really takes to get that next promotion Dear Annie: A friend of mine sent me your column about getting promoted from the individual star level into management, but I already made that jump a few years ago at a different company. In fact, Im starting to regret having left there because, ever since I signed on with my current employer, my career seems to have stalled out. My performance reviews have been great, my department has had several big successes, and I think Im ready for the next level. My boss, however, disagrees. His main criticism is that Im too detail-oriented. So I have two questions. First, is there really such a thing as being too detail-oriented, or could that be a smokescreen for something else he doesnt want to tell me? And second, Ive been extremely attentive to detail all my life -- which usually has been an advantage -- so do I have to change my personality to get promoted? (Is that even possible?) --Stuck in Neutral Dear Stuck: No doubt you arent the only one wondering. Getting promoted is tougher than it used to be, for a couple of reasons. First, the global recession has been a factor, notes Stu Crandell, a senior vice president at Minneapolis-based leadership development and coaching firm PDI Ninth House. Organizations let so many people go that lots of positions got consolidated, so there are fewer management jobs to move into. Even before that, he adds, companies had been running leaner and cutting out layers of management jobs. So often, instead of an upward move, were seeing people move sideways in companies, to get broader experience and visibility, or sometimes even taking a step down in rank in order to prepare to move up later, Crandell says. Its become more of a zigzag path, rather than straight up. This is hard for A students to accept. Then theres the notoriously lofty failure rate of people promoted into bigger jobs, which according to some studies runs as high as 40%. Companies are being extremely cautious about mo