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Right From the Start: Taking Charge in a New Leadership Role. By Dan Ciampa and Michael Watkins. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1999. $24.95. Reviewed by Dr. John H. Woodyard (Lieutenant Colonel, USA Ret.), a consulting psychologist to corporate management on personnel for 18 years and author of a book tentatively titled The Insightful Manager.
At first glance this appeared to be another ho-hum book on management, restating the obvious and supersaturated with endless vignettes to add bulk. Also at first glance it appeared to lack direct relevance to the military reader, since it dealt with a vastly different environment.
At second glance, however, this book proves to contain vital information for those military persons with hopes of landing a responsible position in the civilian world upon retirement. Retirement is not in the forefront of your minds right now, but you will retire. And retirement has a way of sneaking up rapidly. Although senior military officers are for the most part intelligent, well-educated,...