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Just Promoted! A 12-Month Road Map for Success in Your New Leadership Role, Second Edition

Edward Betof · 2010
70/100
👍 Worth It

The month-by-month framework is the book's real strength — it gives a newly promoted leader an immediately usable structure rather than abstract theory, and the checklists and real-leader stories keep it grounded. The 2010 publication date is a genuine issue: remote work, hybrid teams, and new organizational norms aren't covered, and that's a meaningful gap for today's reader. Still a solid foundational resource if you go in knowing you'll need to supplement it with more current material on modern workplace dynamics.

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safety96
substance70
craft68
originality62
accuracy65
hype65
age-fit85
human-eye68
Penny’s verdict70
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