Whether challenged with taking on a startup, turning a business around, or inheriting a high-performing unit, a new leader's success or failure is determined within the first 90 days on the job. In this hands-on guide, Michael Watkins, a noted expert on leadership transitions, offers proven strategies for moving successfully into a new role at any point in one's career. The First 90 Days provides a framework for transition acceleration that will help leaders diagnose their situations, craft winning transition strategies, and take charge quickly. Practical examples illustrate how to learn about new organizations, build teams, create coalitions, secure early wins, and lay the foundation for longer-term success. In addition, Watkins provides strategies for avoiding the most common pitfalls new leaders encounter, and shows how individuals can protect themselves-emotionally as well as professionally-during what is often an intense and vulnerable period. Concise and actionable, this is the surviv

The One–Page Project Manager shows you how to boil down any project into a simple, one–page document that can be used to communicate all essential details to upper management, other departments, suppliers, and audiences. This practical guide will save time and effort, helping you identify the vital parts of a project and communicate those parts and duties to other team members.

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McKinsey & Company is the most respected and most secretive consulting firm in the world, and business readers just can't seem to get enough of all things McKinsey. Now, hot on the heels of his acclaimed international bestseller The McKinsey Way, Ethan Rasiel brings readers a powerful new guide to putting McKinsey concepts and skills into action The McKinsey Mind. While the first book used case studies and anecdotes from former and current McKinseyites to describe how "the firm" solves the thorniest business problems of their A-list clients, The McKinsey Mind goes a giant step further. It explains, step-by-step, how to use McKinsey tools, techniques and strategies to solve an array of core business problems and to make any business venture more successful. Designed to work as a stand-alone guide or together with The McKinsey Way, The McKinsey Mind follows the same critically acclaimed style and format as its predecessor. In this book authors Rasiel and Friga expand upon the lessons found in The McKinse

"You'll not only break the ice, you'll melt it away with yournew skills." -- Larry King"The lost art of verbal communication maybe revitalized by Leil Lowndes." -- Harvey McKay, author of “How toSwim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive” What is that magic quality makes some people instantly loved andrespected? Everyone wants to be their friend (or, if single, theirlover!) In business, they rise swiftly to the top of the corporateladder. What is their "Midas touch?" What it boils down to is a more skillful way of dealing withpeople. The author has spent her career teaching people how tocommunicate for success. In her book How to Talk to Anyone(Contemporary Books, October 2003) Lowndes offers 92 easy andeffective sure-fire success techniques-- she takes the reader fromfirst meeting all the way up to sophisticated techniques used bythe big winners in life. In this information-packed book you’llfind: 9 ways to make a dynamite first impression 14 ways to master small talk, "big talk,"

This earnest guide to career transition periods-when a new job or promotion puts an employee in an unfamiliar role-asserts, reassuringly, that navigating the all-important first 90 days is a "teachable skill." Business professor Watkins, co-author of Right From the Start: Taking Charge in a New Leadership Role, lays out a "standard framework" for leadership transitions, based on "five fundamental propositions," "ten key challenges," and a four-fold typology of situations that new managers find themselves in. Fortunately, Watkins balances the theorizing with practical steps managers can take to get on top of things and initiate changes, including elaborate self-assessment checklists, planning exercises and meticulous guidelines on how to have conversations with underlings and bosses. His advice, if not very original, is sound. He warns managers not to assume that their existing skills will suffice for new roles, advises them to pursue small-scale "early wins" to boost credibility, and admonishes workplace Mach

The greatest motivational book of all time! Napoleon Hill's thirteen step programme will set you on the pathto wealth and success. Think and Grow Rich reveals the money-makingsecrets of hundreds of America's most affluent people. By thinkinglike them, you can become like them. This powerful 1937 classic,with analysis from self-development authority Tom Butler-Bowdon,will continue to be read through the decades of economic boom andbust, proving that the magic formula for making money neverchanges.

For more than twenty years, millions of managers in Fortune 500 companies and small businesses nationwide have followed The One Minute Manager's techniques, thus increasing their productivity, job satisfaction, and personal prosperity. These very real results were achieved through learning the management techniques that spell profitability for the organization and its employees. The One Minute Manager is a concise, easily read story that reveals three very practical secrets: One Minute Goals, One Minute Praisings, and One Minute Reprimands. The book also presents several studies in medicine and the behavioral sciences that clearly explain why these apparently simple methods work so well with so many people. By the book's end you will know how to apply them to your own situation and enjoy the benefits. That's why The One Minute Manager has continued to appear on business bestseller lists for more than two decades, and has become an international sensation.

The high-profile accounting scandals of recent years have madeone thing clear: You can't know too much about the company forwhich you work. What are the numbers? Where do you find them? Howdo they affect you and your staff? This fully revised and updated third edition of The McGraw-Hill36-Hour Course: Finance for Nonfinancial Managers provides a firmgrasp on what all the numbers really mean. Designed to let youlearn at your own pace, it walks you through: The essential concepts of finance, so you can ask intelligentquestions and understand the answers Vital statements and reports, with sections on pro formafinancial statements and expensing of stock options The auditing process--what is measured, how it's measured, andhow you can help ensure accuracy and completeness With chapter-ending quizzes and an online final exam, TheMcGraw-Hill 36- Hour Course: Finance for Nonfinancial Managers serves as avirtual professor, providing the curriculum you need to crunch thenumber

Go from being a good manager to an extraordinary leader. If you read nothing else on leadership, read these 10 articles.We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articleson leadership and selected the most important ones to help youmaximize your own and your organization's performance. HBR's 10 Must Reads On Leadership will inspire you to: - Motivate others to excel - Build your team's self-confidence in others - Provoke positive change - Set direction - Encourage smart risk-taking - Manage with tough empathy - Credit others for your success - Increase self-awareness - Draw strength from adversity

The essential guide to seamless product management for today’sfluid, unpredictable business world Long considered the most useful and insightful guide of its kind,The Product Manager’s Handbook has been fully revised and updatedto give you the edge in today’s challenging business landscape. Itfeatures expanded coverage of product development processes,intelligence-gathering techniques (including social media), and agreater emphasis on international issues. This indispensable resource proves that the techniques and toolsproduct managers use are similar—regardless of what industry theywork in and what kind of products they manage. Simply put, thisbook has everything you need for superior job performance—whetheryou manage consumer or business-to-business products created by anorganization that is hierarchical or horizontal. The Product Manager’s Handbook shows you how to integrate yourorganization’s disparate segments into a cooperative,results-focused unit that produces sa

Supercharge your job performance and get where your want to beby becoming an ACTIVE LEARNER In today's highly competitive workenvironment, continuous learning is an absolute necessity--arequirement to keep up with the latest innovations in the field andincrease productivity. Learn Your Way to Success helps you spototherwise overlooked opportunities to learn and teaches you how totake advantage of them. It provides tools for setting a personallearning agenda, keeping track of what is learned, and determininghow to use that learning to improve performance in their currentjob, prepare for their next job, and plan their careers. Daniel R.Tobin has more than 30 years of experience in the learning anddevelopment field. He has founded two corporate universities(Digital Equipment Corporation's Network University and WangGlobal/Getronics Virtual University) and served as vice presidentof design and development at the American Management Association(AMA).

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A compelling vision. Bold leadership. Decisive action.Unfortunately, these prerequisites of success are almost always theingredients of failure, too. In fact, most managers seeking tomaximize their chances for glory are often unwittingly settingthemselves up for ruin. The sad truth is that most companies haveleft their futures almost entirely to chance, and don’t evenrealize it. The reason? Managers feel they must make choices withfar-reaching consequences today, but must base those choices onassumptions about a future they cannot predict. It is thiscollision between commitment and uncertainty that creates THESTRATEGY PARADOX. This paradox sets up a ubiquitous but little-understood tradeoff.Because managers feel they must base their strategies onassumptions about an unknown future, the more ambitious of themhope their guesses will be right – or that they can somehow adaptto the turbulence that will arise. In fact, only a small number oflucky daredevils prosper, while many more unfortunate, bu

If you want to create a lean, mean, working machine in today'senvironment you need a game plan for building employee morale andcommitment. By coaching and mentoring your work force--instead ofimplementing staid traditional management techniques--you'll startto see tremendous results. Regardless of where you find yourself onthe corporate ladder and what level of authority you carry, whatyou and other managers share in common is the responsibility forthe performance of others. "Coaching and Mentoring For Dummies" canopen your eyes to this innovative way of managing and show you thebest way to get the most out of those who work for you. "Coachingand Mentoring For Dummies" provides the foundation forunderstanding what business coaching is all about, and helps yougain or improve the coaching skills that drive employee performanceand commitment. These skills, which serve as the main topics ofthis book, involve: getting employees to deliver the results youneed; guiding employees to think and do for themselves

If you’re enrolled in an executive education or MBA program, you’ve probably encountered a powerful learning tool: the business case. But if you’re like many people, you may find analyzing cases and writing about them challenging or frustrating. That’s not surprising—cases are not simple narratives, and good ones are typically nonlinear and can even be purposefully misleading. Apply the conventional approach to understanding business cases, and you may waste time (at best) and arrive at weak or meager conclusions (at worst). The Case Study Handbook presents a powerful new approach for analyzing, discussing, and writing about cases. By using sample Harvard Business School cases, you’ll master a number of useful topics, including: How to recognize case situations and apply appropriate tools to solve problems, make decisions, or develop evaluations How to quickly establish a base of knowledge about a case How to write persuasive case-based essays How to talk about c

*Starred Review* Bakan, an internationally recognized legal scholar and professor of law at the University of British Columbia, takes a powerful stab at the most influential institution of our time, the corporation. As a legal entity, a corporation has as its edict one and only one goal, to create profits for its shareholders, without legal or moral obligation to the welfare of workers, the environment, or the well-being of society as a whole. Corporations have successfully hijacked governments, promoting free-market solutions to virtually all of the concerns of human endeavor. Competition and self-interest dominate, and other aspects of human nature, such as creativity, empathy, and the ability to live in harmony with the earth, are suppressed and even ridiculed. Bakan believes that, like Communism, this ideological order cannot last and that corporate rule must be challenged to bring balance and revive the values of democracy, social justice, equality, and compassion. This eye-opening look at a system "prog

"Logos and No Gos ought to be mandatory reference material for all managers of branded products and services. It is a concise, easy read, jammed with crucial information on how to survive and thrive in the I.P. Jungle. It shows how to add brand value and how to guard that value with your life. When Kangol moved out of manufacturing and distribution into brand licensing it took us a while to realise that brand value lies as much in the quality and protection of the I.P. portfolio as it does in the image and trading performance. With Logos and No Gos on your desk there can be no excuse for sloppy I.P. management."—David M. Heys, C.E.O., Kangol Holdings Ltd "Geoff Steward is a highly experienced practitioner in the field of Intellectual Property and Trade Marks in particular. Logos and No Gos embodies his wide experience and is a very readable guide to what is otherwise a tortuous and, often, near impenetrable legal mine-field for the unwary brand owner and brand developer. Anyone thinking of laun

With major financial scandals popping up in greaternumbers—and with more inevitably on the way—it has never been moreimportant for you to understand what dishonest companies do totrick investors. Since the early 1990s, Financial Shenanigans hasbeen helping investors unearth deceptive financial reporting at themost critical time— before they suffer major losses. Now, the third edition broadens its focus to include thenewest, most sophisticated techniques companies use to misleadinvestors. Referred to as the “Sherlock Holmes of Accounting” byBusinessWeek, Howard Schilit and renowned forensic accountingexpert Jeremy Perler take you deeper into the corporate bag oftricks, exposing new levels of accounting gimmickry and arming youwith the investigative tools you need to detect: Earnings Manipulation Shenanigans: Learn the latest trickscompanies use to exaggerate revenue and earnings. Cash Flow Shenanigans: Discover new techniques devised bymanagement that allow it to manipulat

Only someone who is both a successful trader and a successfulwriter could pull off what Constance Brown has accomplished in thisbook: distilling Fibonacci analysis to two hundred or socomprehensive, clearly written, eminently practical pages. Brown knows exactly what a professional trying to come up tospeed on a new trading tool needs and she provides it, coveringwhat Fibonacci analysis is, how it works, where it comes from,pitfalls and dangers, and, of course, how to use it. Basic tradingstrategies are touched upon in virtually every chapter. Fibonacci analysis is one of the most popular technical analysistools, yet it is often used incorrectly. Brown quickly clears upcommon misconceptions and moves on to show, step by step, thecorrect way to apply the technique in any market. Those with Fibonacci analysis software will learn how to use itwith maximum effectiveness; those without will chart the market theold-fashioned way. All will find answers to the trader's mostimportant questions: Where is the market