A Book for Leaders in Transition
Proven Strategies for getting up to speed faster and smarter, in your new role.
“Sometimes Hard Work does not pay, but smart work does.”
The First 90 days
Link for book detail here
This international bestseller - The First 90 Days, by Michael D. Watkins, is a testament to its credibility and relevance in leadership transitions.
Suppose you are a leader embarking on a new journey in a new company or you are promoted to a new role within the same unit or across the unit. In that case, the step-wise approach provided by the author in this book will help you streamline the focus on tasks with proper priority to maximize the outcome and make the transition to the new role seamless.
The 10-step approach is as follows -
Prepare Yourself—Understand why people fail to overcome a mental block from their old role and take charge in their new role, as well as the challenges and how to overcome them.
Accelerate Your Learning—Learn how to identify the best sources to get insights (such as understanding your team structure and their role to help with your learning curve) and accelerate learning so that it ramps up efficiently.
Match Strategy to Situation—Learn the gaps and lead the change to achieve the strategic objectives with the help of the STARS model.
Negotiating Success—Use the five-conversations framework to build a productive working relationship with your new boss. Define expectations, negotiate resources, and work on a 90-day plan.
Secure Early Wins—Learn how to avoid common traps, create a compelling vision, work on prioritization, and build personal credibility by planning changes that improve organizational performance.
Achieve Alignment- Aligning strategy, structure, systems, skills, and cultures.
Build Your Team- Inherit team, manage short-term and long-term goals and expectations, and improve processes as needed.
Create Alliances—Learn to identify whose support is critical for adoption. Map a network of influence and patterns of deference.
Manage Yourself- Creating and enforcing personal disciplines: building and advice-and-counsel-network.
Accelerate Everyone- Using a framework to accelerate transformation, team development, integrate acquisitions, and strengthen succession planning.
The book details the 10-step approach and provides practical examples, workbooks, and templates to facilitate the adoption of this framework.
I hope you find this book as insightful and informative as I did. Please feel free to comment below to share your experience or recommend similar books.