The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build Your Team, and Get Immediate Results

This is the second edition, it adds from the first as the author's have taken what they have learned from their clients and synthesized it into this enhanced version. Chapter 2, Sell Yourself, remains a "job search in a box" extra, tight and well done. Grab the overview at PrimeGenesis.com.

This is a fantastic book - a very good guide for a manager/executive starting at a new company. Be sure to read it BEFORE you start since some of the actions must be done ahead of your first 100 days. The book includes links to a website with downloadable forms - a nice bonus. Highly recommended and a quick read.

We bought this book along with the "The First 90 Days" and read them side by side. Pro: -Delves into what questions to ask before the interview through the first several months... I found no other book that is this complete from beginning to end -Promotes using the time opportunity BEFORE you start a job and in my experience is a major differentiator that I've been able to surprise and delight. Set up pre-meetings, arranging for email/phone and a place to sit, etc. as a chance to listen and learn without the pressure to perform and to begin forming alliances. -Serves as a handy reference... excellent chapter summaries and a strong executive summary with a timeline and a meaty chapter outline are helpful both now and in the future -Checklists are excellent and abundant, boiling thoughts down to the most essential elements in a more memorable (less verbose) way -Checklists include not only job-related tips, but also cover moving-related items as well... handy! -There are many good tips interspersed throughout the book that are good reminders of the basics you need to adhere to in order to be successful -Breaks the "sink or swim mindset" often associated with starting a new position -Excellent use of forms for introspective Q & A; creatively offers forms that can even be downloaded from the internet, a clever and fairly unique offering Con: -I think that assessments of what environment you'll be stepping into are underdeveloped and/or understated. You need to know if the team is under performing, just too new, etc. Bottom line: Highly recommended as a must have text for the aspiring business professional. This book effectively serves as warning, motivation, and how to get results in your new role.

This is an amazing book! Actually, it's a distillation and synthesis of the most relevant content of many books, combined with lots of unique and very valuable insight from the authors, and arranged in a highly useful order. Key eye-openers are: *The importance of starting before Day One and how to do it *The critical success factors of Day One *The sequence, timelines and guidelines for the critical events in the first 100 days - and how much time you haven't got Even on established concepts (e.g. establishing shared purpose, building the right team, conducting milestone meetings), this book adds valuable perspective and many effective practices to improve your probability of success. While the book focuses on the essential steps to succeed in a new job in a new company, it's equally useful for consultants taking on a new assignment or leaders taking on new responsibilities in their current company. The only downside is the "Ouches" you'll feel when you realize what you did wrong, and what you should have done, in prior experiences that could have gone better.

Incredibly helpful & timely for anyone about to start a new job or new position within current company. Best if read as you are nearing the end of your search and BEFORE you start the new job. One of the most interesting and useful pieces of advice is what you can do to get ahead before you even start your job. It completely changed my point of reference.