Right From The Start: Taking Charge In A New Leadership Role

Whether you are succeeding a much-admired boss or charged with implementing sweeping, potentially unsettling change initiatives, a new role is fraught with obstacles. To ensure that your first steps in a new job will lead to enduring success, "Right from the Start" lays out an action-oriented framework to follow during the early months of a transition. Dan Ciampa and Michael D. Watkins prepare you for the often-treacherous task of navigating an organization's strategy, politics, and culture so that you can smoothly and effectively get to work on your new agenda. "Right from the Start" combines this tactical advice with absorbing profiles of CEOs, COOs, and EVPs who candidly discuss their experiences - the successes and the failures - with transitioning to a new leadership role.

• The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, Updated and Expanded
• The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build or Merge Your Team, and Get Immediate Results
• Your Next Move: The Leader's Guide to Navigating Major Career Transitions
• You're in Charge, Now What?: The 8 Point Plan
• Shaping the Game: The New Leader's Guide to Effective Negotiating
• The First 90 Days in Government: Critical Success Strategies for New Public Managers at All Levels
• Transitions at the Top: What Organizations Must Do to Make Sure New Leaders Succeed
• What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
• Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More
• The CEO Next Door: The 4 Behaviors that Transform Ordinary People into World-Class Leaders