Right from the Start: Taking Charge in a New Leadership Role
Author: Dan Ciampa, Michael Watkins
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Date Published: March 2, 2005
From the Publisher:
“This book can help the recently promoted cope with those frightening career moments that arise as soon as you get what you’re after.” -BookPage
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.