Book Summary
The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
Author: Watkins, Michael
Conceptual concept:
? Promote yourself - to this point in your career will continue to do so.
? Accelerate your learning - be systematic and focused about deciding what you need to learn and how you will learn it most efficiently.
? Match strategy to situation
? Secure early wins - builds personal credibility, creates value, and proves results.
? Negotiate success
? Achieve alignment - The higher you go in an organization the more you must bring structure into alignment with strategy.
? Build your team
? Create coalitions
? Keep your balance
? Expedite everyone
STaRS Model
? Start up
- Psychology - excitement and confusion
- Challenges
? Building structures and systems from scratch
? Welding together a cohesive high performing team
? Making do with limited resources
- Opportunities
? Can do things right from the beginning
? People are energized
? No pre-existing rigid thinking
- Support needed
? Help getting needed resources quickly
? Clear, measurable goals
? Guidance at strategic breakpoints
? Help staying focused
- Decision making ? Consult-and-decide
? Turnaround
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