The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels

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	The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels Michael Watkins Harvard Business School Press, 2003 - 208 pages average customer review:based on 77 reviews view larger image
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The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders ( Your Coach in a Box)

The book is splendid and is essential for any new manager. It will also enhance the managerial and leadership life of any progressive manager regardless of experience. I would promote this book and/or the CD set to any organisation that really wants organisational development to be enhanced.

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Sound, practical advice for anyone climbing the corporate ladder. Great exercises and guidelines for conversations with new bosses as well as new underlings. Great help for those first 90 days and beyond.

Guidance for those in transition

Michael Watkins offers counsel that is relevant to so many, yet is actually a subject of study for so few. In my lifetime I have changed companies no less than four times. Job titles have changed twice than many times.

Preparing for and performing well during times of change accounts for a large part of my career. And I think I am not alone. For those looking for nuggets of assitance in their own transition, this book is for you. But Watkins research is new and still evolving to maturity. Look for more and better things to come from him in the future.

Best about book: exercises and tests give chance for reflection and application to current environment, e.g. the personal problem preference test.

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Great Topic - kudos Mr Watkins!

My husband took the book out from the library for me and after reading the first few chapters I decided that this was a book to own. As you will keep going back to re-read the roadmap to help you on your new venture(s).
Very insightful for all levels not just C-Level positions.

Solid, Well-Written Guidance For Getting Off on the Right Foot

Watkins' success with this book is in my view based on the simplicity, clarity, and sensible structure of his model. The model and supporting tools and concepts may or may not be grounded in behavioral science or perhaps even in extensive research that would pass muster with the sternest of psychometricians, but no matter - they'll work if you apply them with rigor and flexibility.

That's the thing about leadership books and leadership itself, isn't it? If you can wade through the many paradoxes presented by the rigorous yet flexible application of common sense, you'll probably come out on top.

Watkins' work here is awfully strong. This book is highly readable, easily digestible, and provides simple, easy mental models for new leaders to latch on to. I recommend this book strongly to all the newly-promoted and newly-hired managers I encounter, just as it was recommended to me. That's probably the best endorsement possible.

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