With the help of the insights and approaches in this book, I am confident you have successfully accelerated your performance and made maximum leadership impact that will not just positively affect your first 100 days in this role, but will equip you to have maximum leadership success during the first 12 months and your whole role tenure and beyond.

Your first 100 days set the tone for who you are as a leader and what you want to achieve with your new role. It is the beginning phase of what will ultimately become your complete leadership role legacy, and a good start bodes well for a strong and effective whole role legacy.

The aim of this book is to empower you and enable the vital processes of leadership to be awakened in you. I trust that the learning will be a catalyst for your leadership growth going forward. This book provides you with a foundation for sustainable leadership skills transformation, which includes:

• increased self-confidence
• better decision-making
• growth in emotional intelligence
• more effectiveness at structured planning and managing uncertainty
• greater strategic ability to set a clear direction and motivate others to follow

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By applying the concepts in this book you can continue to enjoy longer-term leadership transformational benefits as you become more skilled and more experienced in putting the concepts to work at whatever stage you are at in your role appointment life cycle.

Let’s face it, the quality of leadership in the world is not great. As a human race, we need the people in charge – our leaders – to strive to do better. Each first 100 days is an opportunity for a new leadership beginning, with a multiplier opportunity to role-model to others a better quality of leadership. Through my books and my advisory services, I try to help my First100 clients and readers to step up and be better leaders. I feel good knowing that I am aligned with my purpose and doing what I can to contribute to the progress of our world. If individually we all tried to do a better job within our humble areas of responsibility, then maybe as a human race we could collectively raise our game.

At its core this book is all about helping you to improve the quality of your leadership skills – with particular emphasis on the beginning of a new role as a moment of need that attracts your attention and appetite for learning. We need to get your attention because in a world of increasing complexity and uncertainty we need our leaders to be even better and stronger than before. Our business leaders need to try harder, take more responsibility and deliver better outcomes faster. We need to see the emergence of a new breed of senior executive who will take their role seriously from the beginning, create structure out of chaos, lead by example, motivate their teams to deliver on missions that will strengthen their organisations, create stability and help maintain jobs and boost the economy.

For newly appointed leaders everywhere, this is your call to action. We are looking to you to bring us forward. You can play a very personal role in improving the quality of leadership in the world by stepping up in your role, in your organisation, by having a great first 100 days, and then taking your team and people ever further forward in the months and years ahead.

Thank you for reading this book. I wish you every success on your leadership journey.