The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan, 5th Edition

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Are you a veteran CEO taking the reins of your next organization? Starting a new role as a frontline supervisor? Something in between? Whether you are joining a new organization from the outside, getting promoted from within, leading a turnaround or transformation, or merging teams following an acquisition, The New Leader's 100‐Day Action Plan will help you take charge, build your team, set direction, and deliver better results faster than anyone thought possible.

“We've found that 40 percent of executives hired at the senior level are pushed out, fail or quit within 18 months. It's expensive in terms of lost revenue. It's expensive in terms of the individual's hiring. It's damaging to morale.” Heidrick & Struggles, internal study of 20,000 searches¹

If, after 100 days, a key stakeholder is asked, “How is that new leader doing?” and the answer is, “The jury is out,” what that means is, “The jury is in, and we don't like the answer.”

What do these failed leaders not see, know, do, and deliver? In most cases, they dig their own holes by missing one or more crucial steps in their first 100 days, including:

• Inadvertently sending their new colleagues the wrong messages and causing the culture to reject them
• Developing a new strategy but failing to get buy‐in and build trust with their new team
• Failing to operationalize their strategy and deliver results
• Being too slow to make changes to the team
• Expending energy on the wrong projects without accomplishing the ...