The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
This earnest guide to career transition periods asserts, reassuringly, that navigating the all-important first 90 days is a “teachable skill.” Business professor Watkins 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.
The First 90 Days can be purchased here. Other readings that inspire innovation in engineering education are listed here.

