After three months in a new job, are you up to speed? Will you sink ...or swim? Transitions into new roles are the crucibles in which leaders get their toughest tests, and they're the defining factor in professional careers today. This title shows how you can survive and thrive in all the major transitions you may face during your career.

Offers a First 90 Days-based framework, along with tools and advice, to help leaders get up to speed in their roles through negotiation. This book provides ways of thinking about and practicing negotiation once you're in them.

Shows why predictable surprises put us all at risk, and shows how we can understand, anticipate, and prevent them before disaster strikes. There is a fear that society and the workplace are filled with disasters in the making that we could prevent if we only knew what to look for. This book plays on that fear and offers a resolution to it.

Even the best-run companies can get blindsided by disasters they should have anticipated. This book shows you how to minimize your risk by understanding and lowering the psychological, organizational, and political barriers preventing you from foreseeing calamity.

Aims to prepare you for the task of navigating an organization's strategy, politics, and culture.

Provides a roadmap to help new government leaders at various levels accelerate their transitions by overcoming nine transition challenges, ranging from clarifying expectations to defining goals to building a team to managing personal stress. The authors also offer detailed strategies for avoiding major transition traps .