The First 90 Days
by Watkins, Michael D.
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Highlights
Your goal in every transition is to get as rapidly as possible to the break-even point. This is the point at which you have contributed as much value to your new organization as you have consumed from it.
The president of the United States gets 100 days to prove himself; you get 90. The actions you take during your first few months in a new role will largely determine whether you succeed or fail.
When I surveyed more than thirteen hundred senior HR leaders, almost 90 percent agreed that "transitions into new roles are the most challenging times in the professional lives of leaders." And nearly three-quarters agreed that "success or failure during the first few months is a strong predictor of overall success or failure in the job."
the idea of "the fuzzy front-end" (referring to the period between getting a job and formally stepping into the role and developed jointly with Dan Ciampa)