- Title
- The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
- Author
- Watkins, Michael
- Publisher
- Harvard Business School Press
- Year
- 2003
- ISBN
- 1591391105
Curriculum and Classification
- Subject
- MainCurriculum
- SubCurriculum
- Semester
Abstract
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Book 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 determined within 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 quickly.
Practical examples illustrate how to learn about new organizations, build teams, create coalitions, secure early 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.
Synopsis
This is a short, concise, hands-on manual for managers at all levels - a handbook for a leader's first 90 days in office. It includes lots of practical tools and questions for self-assessment. It is written in a friendly and accessible tone. It provides a broad-gauged coverage of many aspects and kinds of transitions at all levels. New topics such as working with new bosses, building teams, and aligning the strategy, structure, systems and skills of organizations are included.
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