The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, Updated and Expanded

This is a great resource with tremendous insight for starting at a new position. Some of the content isn't applicable to a church situation, but much of it is. It is well laid out with clear questions and practical steps. I'd highly recommend it.

If you are new to managing in any organization of more than 1 person, this book has several techniques to help you avoid traps and identify blind spots. It addresses how to plan and how to manage all relarionships to help make your new position successful. Required reading in your growinf career.

A good read... some good ideas, processes and techniques. I feel this is just a bit dated... and could use some refreshing. But mostly it is gold for anyone starting a transition or a change in jobs. (Frankly I do feel that some of this is just flat out “duh” and not really all that insightful (about 10-15%) but most of it is useful and enlightening.) read through and extract your nuggets... like I did... you'll find plenty here to use.

I've heard about this book from many people so I bought the updated version and its extremely helpful. It is the "bible" of transitioning to a new role. The general situation is either being hired or promoted to a very senior level or executive role where you have responsibilities for people, budgets and initiatives and have to set direction.The author provides step by step chapters on the different things you have to think about and what phases a transition plan will entail. There are excellent check lists, tables and exercises to help you plan out a successful transition. This includes analyzing yourself as well as your new firm as different situations will require different approaches and half the battle is know what situation you are in. It only took a few days to read including taking notes and doing some analysis. Its not a hard read but I recommend taking the time, bookmarking sections and referring back to them along your journey.

Great book.

This book helps people handle transitions into a new company or a new role. It provides a framework (dubbed STARS) for properly diagnosing the situation we are landing in, and a set of tools (e.g. negotiate expectations, create alliances, create org. alignment, identify early wins, map influencers, etc) and guidelines for what to focus on given our initial diagnosis.I wouldn't say that the advice or insight here is groundbreaking or unintuitive, but the book’s value resides in officiating as a checklist, spurring thought and intentionality during the early phase of a job transition. Some of the content, related to creating a strategy, seeking organizational alignment, and building a team, are worth revisiting since these challenges can arise at any point.

This books gives great foundational information and details on how to prepare and lead through a job change when you are a leader.

I never realized how often I would refer to this book. Not just for planning to navigate my own first 90 days in an organization, but also to predict what others would do in theirs. A constant source of insight at arm's reach.