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Right From The Start: Taking Charge In A New Leadership Role Paperback – March 1, 2005

by Dan Ciampa (Author), Michael Watkins (Author)
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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.
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Let Right from the Start show you how to overcome the tensions and challenges inherent in any leadership transition. In Right from the Start, Ciampa and Watkins lay out an action-oriented framework to follow during the first six months in a new job. They supplement their tactical advice with absorbing profiles of CEOs, COOs, and EVPs who candidly discuss their experiences - the successes and the failures - with making the transition to a leadership position.

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Dan Ciampa is an adviser to leaders moving into new positions and on creating a culture that sustains new technology and operational improvements. Michael D. Watkins is a cofounder of Genesis Advisers, a leadership development consultancy that specializes in the design of onboarding and transition acceleration solutions, workshops, and coaching for Fortune 500 companies.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvard Business Review Press; 1st edition (March 1, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1591397928
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1591397922
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.75 x 8.25 inches
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    Michael Watkins coaches C-level executives of global organizations and is founder of Genesis Advisers (www.genesisadvisers.com), a global leadership development consultancy specializing in transition acceleration for leaders, teams and organizations. He is also Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change at the IMD Business School where he teaches a popular Virtual First 90 Days Open Program for leaders in transition (www.imd.org/f90d). He has spent the last two decades working with executives - both corporate and public – to help them craft their legacies as leaders and is ranked among the leading management thinkers globally by Thinkers50 (2019).

    Watkins is author of the international bestseller The First 90 Days Updated and Expanded: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, aptly dubbed “The Onboarding Bible” by The Economist. With over a million copies sold in English and translations in 24 languages, The First 90 Days is the classic reference for leaders in transition and a standard learning and development resource for executive onboarding. Amazon named it one of its top 100 business books of all time.

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Laurence J. Stybel
4.0 out of 5 stars Flawed Yet an Important Book
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 1999
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Our firm provides outplacement and retained search services.
We are providing this book for all our successful job candidates.
The focus of this book is to help new manage successfully navigate the first six months of an assignment. It begins with the fuzzy beginnings, when job candidate and recruiter first talk with each other.
The Tables beginning on pages 134 are quite useful.
When two authors write a book together, a reader should have the right to expect a duet unless the authors explicitly state otherwise.
The book suffers lack of coordination between the authors.
Chapters 8,9,10 are written in a different voice and lack the practical, time- sensitive punch of the first half of the book.
Indeed Chapters 8, 9, 10 don't appear to be written from the perspective of the reader of this book. It is more like a major cut-and-paste job from a Management 101 text, with superficial references to earlier chapters. The reality is that Chapters 8,9, and 10 could have been easily deleted from the entire book.
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Jim Estill
5.0 out of 5 stars A must Read For any outsider taking a CEO or VP position
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2009
I was surprised at how few reviews there were of this excellent book. perhaps there are few people at the CEO level that get parachuted in from the outside.

I judge how good a book is by if I take action as a result. And I did take action. I did a simple one page description for my new direct reports on "working with Jim".

It reaffirmed the need to vision. Of course I knew that but it really reinforced it.

It also talked a lot about politics which can be very tough. Not like nice hard numbers.

A must read for any new CEO.
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KDesi
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Guide for New Leader
Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2008
I utilized the concepts in Right from the Start to support my success as I transitioned to a new career opportunity as National Training Director. I had led smaller teams in the past, but this team consisted of 40 professionals geographically dispersed throughout the USA. I also was interfacing with C suite executives on a daily basis. The concepts described within this book helped me navigate the corporate maze, garner cooperation and drive results. Thank you!
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William Nunn
5.0 out of 5 stars Thanks for saving me money
Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2005
I read the ebook experiences others had and decided not to purchase the ebook and for that matter the book period today through Amazon.

Amazon needs to take seriously the buyers that come to its online stores and remove such eBooks if they are only a 9 page summary.

Disgusted and will buy from another online provider.
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N1st
5.0 out of 5 stars Good but not for the CEO, more the number 2
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 4, 2020
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I’m enjoying this book, but I did think it was for first time CEOs, but it’s actually explicitly written for the number 2 in an org as opposed to the ultimate decision maker. Still able to glean good insights from it, but I wonder what would be different if it was targeted at the number one in charge.
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David T-C
5.0 out of 5 stars Right From The Start: Taking Charge In A New Leadership Role
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 26, 2013
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A superb book. Well worth having. I shall be dipping back in to this for years to come! A must have.
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Swetha
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Read!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 4, 2012
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A good read, gives a a heads up to how to begin in a leadership role, especially when promoted or starting a new role.
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