The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build Your Team, and Get Immediate Results, 3rd Edition

PREFACE

The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan, first published in 2006, presents PrimeGenesis's proven solutions, techniques, and suggested action items for each stage of a leader's first 100 days in a new position. Filled with examples, case studies, and tools, the book shows leaders and their sponsors exactly how to build high-performing teams with lasting power that can deliver better results faster. As the concepts of onboarding and transition acceleration continue to take hold and mature, interest in our approach has remained strong with the first two editions of this book having sold more than 50,000 copies worldwide.

Despite the increased awareness and energy around the importance for new leaders to have a comprehensive onboarding plan, leadership turnover continues to be a big problem for organizations and for the leaders themselves. Forty percent of new leaders fail in their first 18 months.¹

In the context of these general market numbers, over the past eight years PrimeGenesis has been able to lower the failure rate for leaders it has helped around the world from 40 percent down to below 10 percent—a four-fold reduction in risk! The companies that have hired PrimeGenesis to deploy the methodologies discussed in the book have experienced higher rates of retention of senior leaders and higher rates of success on the part of those leaders’ meeting goals. The impact on budget, morale, and other employee retention has been significant. Since we finished the first edition of ...