Critical Success Strategies for New Public Managers

April 17, 2010

The first 90 days in any leadership position can be the most critical time of your career. Peter H. Daly, Michael Watkins, and Cate Reavis offer a practical guide on how to deal with job transitions and new leadership roles for people working in public management. The book also provides detailed strategies on avoiding major transition traps that you and your agency or department will likely have to face. While being written for a particular US work environment, public managers and policy makers in other nations can, nevertheless, gain useful ideas and insights from this book.
However the authors could have underlined more the singular character of most public bureaucracies, but the no-nonsense approach, and gearing up business administration concepts for the public sector – make this book particularly useful read for those who are trying to deflect the pitfalls for the first 90.

Daly, Peter H. / Reavis, Cate / Watkins, Michael (2006). The First 90 Days in Government: Critical Success Strategies for New Public Managers at All Levels. Boston: Harvard Business Press.

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