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  • The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded

  • Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter
  • Written by: Michael Watkins
  • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
  • Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (137 ratings)

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The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded

Written by: Michael Watkins
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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The world’s most trusted guide for leaders in transition.

Transitions are a critical time for leaders. In fact, most agree that moving into a new role is the biggest challenge a manager will face. While transitions offer a chance to start fresh and make needed changes in an organization, they also place leaders in a position of acute vulnerability. Missteps made during the crucial first three months in a new role can jeopardize or even derail your success.

In this updated and expanded version of the international bestseller The First 90 Days, Michael D. Watkins offers proven strategies for conquering the challenges of transitions - no matter where you are in your career. Watkins, a noted expert on leadership transitions and adviser to senior leaders in all types of organizations, also addresses today’s increasingly demanding professional landscape, where managers face not only more frequent transitions but also steeper expectations once they step into their new jobs.

By walking you through every aspect of the transition scenario, Watkins identifies the most common pitfalls new leaders encounter and provides the tools and strategies you need to avoid them. You’ll learn how to secure critical early wins, an important first step in establishing yourself in your new role. Each chapter also includes checklists, practical tools, and self-assessments to help you assimilate key lessons and apply them to your own situation.

Whether you’re starting a new job, being promoted from within, embarking on an overseas assignment, or being tapped as CEO, how you manage your transition will determine whether you succeed or fail. Use this book as your trusted guide.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2013 Michael Watkins (P)2013 Gildan Media LLC

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Mainly for Senior Managers

Most of the advise in this book is mainly/only applicable for people at fairly senior levels in an organization. The author frequently assumes that you will have people directly reporting to you, and often an assumes that your direct reports will have direct reports. There is also the assumption that you will have the role power to make changes to process and strategic decisions within your organization.

If the above applies to you, this book may be helpful. If you are more junior (as I am) their isn't much helpful advise in this book.

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very useful

easy to read
understandable
useful
applicable to nowadays
strait to use
make light for the underestimated part of business

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Should get a more dynamic narrator

It was hard for me to stay focus at some points as I find the narrator was drab.

Content is good. But missed a lot because I struggled to stay focus.

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Bookmark needs more editing features

- Playback speed
- Don’t make the audio start all over every time you move the range

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Great learning experience

Very good insight. Liked seeing it formalized. Would recommend it if you just took on a new rôle regardless of level

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I can’t stay awake to judge this content

The reader is so droll that is impossible to get through this material. Audible should not have this author read his own material. It sounds like a 1950’s newsreel.

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A must read book

Perfect audio allocution. Book is a must read for transition strategy and better understanding of why people succeed where others dont.

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Maximizing any work transition

lots of tactical information to make any career transition easier. I like how the book talked about identifying quick wins, key influencers within an organization, and team development.



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Great book, audiobook even better for previous readers

While this is a fantastic read, I found it a bit tougher to be 100% grasping at ALL the concepts the book provides through an audio recording. While perhaps 80% effective as an audiobook, I would’ve liked the chart comparisons and examples more on-paper. As is the case with many professional reads, certain concepts become obtuse, relying on a fair amount of organizational behavior language, coupled with an incredibly professional/academic tone/angle the book is known for. I would still recommend this audiobook to all, although readers of the printed book might benefit the most.

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The perfect companion book when in transition

Lots of great insights and work sheets. Opened my eyes to a number of mistakes that I made in the past and taught me how to avoid them in my current transition. A book to come back to on a regular basis as you grow in your career.

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