The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded

Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter

By: Michael Watkins

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins

Publisher's summary

The world’s most trusted guide for leaders in transition.

Transitions are a critical time for leaders. In fact, most agree that moving into a new role is the biggest challenge a manager will face. While transitions offer a chance to start fresh and make needed changes in an organization, they also place leaders in a position of acute vulnerability. Missteps made during the crucial first three months in a new role can jeopardize or even derail your success.

In this updated and expanded version of the international bestseller The First 90 Days, Michael D. Watkins offers proven strategies for conquering the challenges of transitions - no matter where you are in your career. Watkins, a noted expert on leadership transitions and adviser to senior leaders in all types of organizations, also addresses today’s increasingly demanding professional landscape, where managers face not only more frequent transitions but also steeper expectations once they step into their new jobs.

By walking you through every aspect of the transition scenario, Watkins identifies the most common pitfalls new leaders encounter and provides the tools and strategies you need to avoid them. You’ll learn how to secure critical early wins, an important first step in establishing yourself in your new role. Each chapter also includes checklists, practical tools, and self-assessments to help you assimilate key lessons and apply them to your own situation.

Whether you’re starting a new job, being promoted from within, embarking on an overseas assignment, or being tapped as CEO, how you manage your transition will determine whether you succeed or fail. Use this book as your trusted guide.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2013 Michael Watkins (P)2013 Gildan Media LLC

Great book for the leader in transition

Listened to it on my drive to work and found it very valuable. It is a classic business book.

Great outline for transitioning into new roles

This was a great tool to help with transitioning to a new role. I just wish I had this the last 6 times I had transitioned.
The narrator was also very good and easy to listen to.

Solid but slightly dry

It would be helpful to have the sheets and lists available while listening to keep engaged.

all new managers seeking advise

I am preparing for a new position in management. I highly recommend this book. It is a must-read for anyone looking at a new position or new leadership role f you want to excel 2 and they was a kid of level position. Even people who have never thought about the first 90 days of any new position!! ;)

better to read actual book

I really like the content but there were so many references to charts in the book I think it would have been much better to read the actual book. I started a new job and use the five questions the author suggested when meeting with staff. They worked really well.

A Must Have As You Hit The Next Landing Spot

As a seasoned professional, it was refreshing to engage with the story and make the necessary adjustments as I entered a new company and role of leadership. This book is a vital read...PERIOD

1st 90 days

This is a good book for preparing yourself the the transition into a new position whether it’s at a new company or promotion within.

A good one

This a good book, but mainly spread over common sense ideas and practices. It indeed might be useful as a reflexive toolkit for moments of changes and new responsibilities, but it does not sparks any new concept or breakthrough revelation.

Overall, it is also a book about leadership and corporate relationships in a general way.

As new project manager

was incredibly helpful to avoid pitfalls, especially being new in the role. most valuable insights were not to do were you feel most confident if it's not your role and to create influence diagrams.

Excellent Content, But....

Where does The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Great book if you are looking to move up in your career following a new position. Beware though, that it makes many references to the charts, tables, graphs, lists, and figures contained within the actual book. Unfortunately, the audiobook does not come with these images which I felt were extremely important to the application of the book. It would be great if a pdf was provided which contained these items, but instead, I had to go out and buy the physical book as well. If you can find your way around this issue, it is well worth it. It does a good job of creating a visible plan for you to follow to ensure your success and upward mobility within a company. Don't wait until after you get the job to get this book though. I wish I would have read it before I even got the position to be able to go in with a legitimate plan and purpose. Instead I got it six weeks after I started which still helped tremendously.