Start Your New Job with Confidence: Ideas for Success in Your First 100 Days

Martha I. Finney

Nov 2009 · Pearson Education

About this ebook

This Element is an excerpt from Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss (ISBN: 9780137021147) by Martha Finney. Available in print and digital formats.

Got a new leadership job? Take charge with confidence--no matter what happened in your previous position!

In good times, the failure rates of newly employed leaders are abysmal. In bad times, you know there’s a long line of candidates ready to step in if you fail. And the psychological wounds of losing your previous job might get in the way of taking charge with confidence....

Ratings and reviews

I bought this book hoping for helpful information and I got about 5 pages of poorly organized information that I could of gotten off of Google.

About the author

Martha I. Finney is a writer and consultant specializing in employee engagement and leadership communications. A business journalist for 20 years before entering consulting full-time, she brings the qualitative perspective of workplace passion and problem-solving to clients who value the transformative power of engaged employees. Her clients and leader interviews have come from such organizations as the U.S. CIA; Intuit; Hewlett-Packard; Newell Rubbermaid; Caterpillar; Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide; Marriott; America Online; Yahoo!; the New York Philharmonic; Textron; Charles Schwab; Industrial Light and Magic; AFLAC; Walt Disney Studios; Deloitte Touche and U.S. Geological Survey. She is author or co-author of more than 13 books, including HR From the Heart: Inspiring Stories and Strategies for Building the People Side of Great Business, with Yahoo’s Chief People Officer, Libby Sartain. Her original research has been featured on CNN, NPR’s Morning Edition, and in major newspapers throughout the U.S.