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| The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels | |
| by Michael Watkins | ISBN:1591391105 |
| Harvard Business School Publishing © 2003 | |
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This innovative text provides a framework for transition acceleration that will help leaders diagnose their situations, craft winning transition strategies, and take charge quickly. |
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The First 90 Days ”Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels | ||
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Preface | ||
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Introduction | - | The First 90 Days |
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Chapter 1 | - | Promote Yourself |
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Chapter 2 | - | Accelerate Your Learning |
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Chapter 3 | - | Match Strategy to Situation |
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Chapter 4 | - | Secure Early Wins |
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Chapter 5 | - | Negotiate Success |
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Chapter 6 | - | Achieve Alignment |
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Chapter 7 | - | Build Your Team |
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Chapter 8 | - | Create Coalitions |
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Chapter 9 | - | Keep Your Balance |
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Chapter 10 | - | Expedite Everyone |
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Conclusion | - | Beyond Sink or Swim |
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Index | ||
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List of Figures | ||
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List of Tables | ||
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List of Sidebars | ||
Back Cover
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You ve just been promoted to a new leadership position. You re not yet sure of the challenges ahead or how you will meet them. All you know is that you have three months to get on top of the job and move forward ”or fail. This book is your road map for taking charge quickly and effectively during critical career transition periods, whether you re a first-time manager or a new CEO. Written by noted leadership transition expert Michael Watkins, The First 90 Days outlines proven strategies that will dramatically shorten the time it takes to reach what Watkins calls the breakeven point : the point at which your organization needs you as much as you need the job. Based on three years of research into leadership transitions at all levels and hands-on work designing transition programs for top companies, Watkins provides illustrative examples and actionable tools that will show you how to:
About the Author Michael Watkins is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he does research on leadership and negotiation. He is the author of several books, including Breakthrough Business Negotiation: A Toolbox for Managers (2002); the coauthor of Right from the Start: Taking Charge in a New Leadership Role (HBS Press, 1999); and the author of Leadership Transitions , an HBSP eLearning Program. |
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The First 90 Days ”Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
Michael Watkins
Harvard
Business School Press
Boston, Massachusetts
copyright 2003 Michael Watkins
All rights reserved.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Watkins, Michael, 1956 “
The first 90 days : critical success strategies for new leaders at all levels / Michael Watkins. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-59139-110-5 (alk. paper) 1. Leadership. 2. Executive ability. 3. Strategic planning. 4. Management. I. Title: First ninety day. II. Title. HD57.7.W38 2003 658.4 ”dc21
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About the Author
Michael Watkins is an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, where he studies leadership and negotiation. He teaches a popular second-year course on corporate diplomacy , which explores how executives negotiate with other business leaders, government officials, the media, and other stakeholders to shape the external environments of their organizations.
Prior to joining the HBS faculty in 1996, Watkins was an Associate Professor at Harvard s Kennedy School of Government. While at the Kennedy School, he studied complex international diplomacy negotiations in the Middle East, Korea, and the Balkans and coauthored Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed the World s Toughest Post “Cold War Conflicts .
Watkins is also the author of Breakthrough Business Negotiation: A Toolbox for Managers, which won the CPR Institute s prize for best book in the field of negotiation in 2002, and coauthor of Winning the Influence Game: What Every Business Leader Should Know About Government and Right from the Start: Taking Charge in a New Leadership Role.
To Dan
With gratitude for your insight and friendship.
M. W.
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