The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
- ISBN13: 9781591391104
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Product Description
Whether challenged with taking on a startup, turning a business around, or inheriting a high-performing unit, a new leader’s success or failure is single-minded surrounded by the first 90 days on the job.
In this hands-on guide, Michael Watkins, a noted expert on leadership transitions, offers proven strategies for moving successfully into a new role at any point in one’s career. The First 90 Days provides a framework for transition acceleration that will help leaders diagnose their situations, craft winning transition strategies, and take charge promptly.
Practical examples illustrate how to learn in this area new organizations, build teams, make coalitions, reliable ahead of schedule wins, and lay the foundation for longer-term success. In addition, Watkins provides strategies for avoiding the most common pitfalls new leaders encounter, and shows how individuals can protect themselves-emotionally as well as professionally-during what is often an intense and vulnerable period.
Concise and actionable, this is the survival guide no new leader should be without.
“Few companies develop a systematic ‘on-boarding’ process for their new leaders, even though this is a critical function with major organizational implications. Michael Watkins’s The First 90 Days provides a powerful framework and strategies that will enable new leaders to take charge promptly. It is an invaluable tool for that most vulnerable time-the transition.”
-Goli Darabi, Senior Vice President, Corporate Leadership & Succession Management, Dependability Investments
“Every job-private- or public-sector, civilian or military-has its breakeven point, and everyone can accelerate their learning. Read this book at least twice: once before your next transition-before getting caught up in the whirl and blur of new faces, names, acronyms, and issues; then read it again after you’ve settled in, and consider how to accelerate transitions for your next new boss and for persons who come to work for you.”
-Colonel Eli Alford, U.S. Army
“Watkins provides an brilliant road map, telling us what all new leaders need to know and do to accelerate their learning and success in a new role. The First 90 Days should be incorporated into every company’s leadership development strategy, so that anyone building a transition in an organization can get up to speed quicker and smarter.”
-Suzanne M. Danielle, Director of Global Leadership Development, Aventis
“Michael Watkins has nailed a huge corporate problem and provided the solution in one fell swoop. The pressure on new leaders to hit the ground running has never been greater, and the likelihood and cost of failure is escalating. Watkins’s timing with The First 90 Days is impeccable.”
-Gordon Curtis, Principal, Curtis Consulting
“The First 90 Days is a must-read for entrepreneurs. Anyone who’s been the CEO of a initiation-up or ahead of schedule-stage company knows that you go owing to many 90-day leadership transitions in the way of a company’s formative years. In this groundbreaking book, Michael Watkins provides crucial insights, as well as a toolkit of techniques, to enable you to accelerate owing to these transitions successfully.”
-Mike Kinkead, President and CEO, timeBLASTER Corporation, serial entrepreneur, and Cofounder and Trustee, Massachusetts Software Council
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You can’t teach leadership. This book is nonsense. A leader is formed from their background in which character is built.
Rating: 1 / 5
Did Mr. Watkins write this book because he had something to say or he just had to say something?
Lots of words compressed in very small thought that offers any value… I wonder who these folks are giving this book a rating of privileged than a star. If Amazon allowed negative ranking I would have done that as I feel I wasted my money and time reading pure nonsense.. Harvard Press needs to be a small more picky in terms of what it publishes associations with books like these will diminish the message of any excellent ones they come out.
The following is culled out from the book;
“The root causes of transition failure always lie in the pernicious interaction between the situation, with its opportunities and pitfalls, and the individual, with his or her strength and vulnerabilities”
Please draw your own conclusions.
Rating: 1 / 5
The seller sent the book to me as promised. This book is helping me in my everyday job.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a formulaic manual for what to do if you get a management type position. Basically, do this, then this, ect. It is extremely dry. I thought it might be of benefit to me even though I already have been in my job nearly two years. Incorrect. This is a book to read before you initiation a new management position. It is for corporate management settings, and maybe industrial management, but certainly not retail management. I thought it did have some very excellent suggestions in this area interviewing persons around you, privileged than, besides and below you, in order to make the greatest impact. In fact, after reading it, I am honestly certain my new boss read it because he pretty much followed the formula to a tee. For most people this book is not going to be relevant, but for the upper echelons of the corporate planet, it is likely worthwhile for them to read.
Rating: 1 / 5
Excellent reference for both new leaders in their first 90 days, and for companies who should take a look at their onboarding and personal development processes.
Rating: 4 / 5