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It’s All About Day One (Harvard Business Review)

By: Suzanne de Janasz, Kees van der Graaf, Michael Watkins
Narrated by: Todd Mundt
Length: 16 mins
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Publisher's Summary

Suzanne de Janasz, a professor of leadership and organization development at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland, Kees van der Graaf, the former head of Unilever’s European business, and Michael Watkins, cofounder and chairman of Genesis Advisers and a professor of leadership and organizational change at IMD, report on how to give a new executive the best possible start.

This article was first published in the June 2013 issue of Harvard Business Review.

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