News & Media

Endorsements and reviews

3.16.05 Financial Times, (Registration Required)

"How to move smoothly into the top seat"
Neff and Citrin have performed a service in revealing the challenges that confront CEOs today. Throughout there is a strong sense of the daunting, exhausting task facing the company's most important recruit, 14 hours a day, six days a week.

2.28.05 Business Week, (Registration Required)

"Eight Isn't Enough"
As confidants of some of the nation's most prominent CEOs, Neff and Citrin are in a choice position to offer advice, and there's plenty of it here. In particular, their suggestion to go slowly -- in developing a team and transforming the corporate culture -- is on target.

2.14.05 USA TODAY

"Guidelines aid new chiefs Advice offered for first days as CEO"

1.26.05 The Globe and Mail

"Are you the new leader on the block?"

1.24.05 The Miami Herald

"The Miami Herald business book review column"

1.24.05 Time Magazine

"First Days - Executive Summary"

1.18.05 The Wall Street Journal, (Registration Required)

"The Art of Being a New Executive"

12.04 Library Journal

11.29.04 Publishers Weekly

Press coverage

1.24.05 Fortune

"A Fortune Book Excerpt"
Hoping to identify specific steps that worked-and common traps to avoid-we interviewed divisional presidents, board members, nonprofit directors, and more than 50 chief executives who'd taken their jobs within the past three years. We concentrated on CEOs in part because they tend to have had a number of "first 100 days" experiences.

1.18.05 The Today Show

Thought getting promoted was hard? That new job may be even harder. Author and recruitment expert Jim Citrin talks about his book "You're in Charge, Now What?" with "The Today Show" host Katie Couric.

1.5.05 Investor's Business Daily, (Registration Required)

"10 Secrets to Success — Take Action: Your 100-Day Impression"

12.28.04 The Wall Street Journal, (Registration Required)

"Some Tips from CEOs to Help You to Make a Fresh Start in 2005"


Media contact details

Book reviews

Tara Delaney Gilbride
Director of Publicity
Harmony, Shaye Areheart Books & Crown Business
Crown Publishing, a division of Random House, Inc.
1.212.572.2872
tgilbride@randomhouse.com

Editorial opportunities

Jim Horton
Robert Marston and Associates
485 Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10022 USA
1.212.371.2200
jhorton@marstonpr.com