**Intact Gift Giving Condition book**

A quarter of all managers move into a new leadership role every year: promoted from within, hired in from outside, or somewhere in between. Every new manager is judged before they’ve done anything to deserve it — and almost nobody tells them the schedule. What almost none of them are told is that their team forms a lasting verdict about them in a narrow, closing window right at the start — built from a handful of early, high-leverage moments rather than the months of solid work that follow. The Credibility Clock names that mechanism and gives experienced leaders the tools to work with it deliberately, whether you’re managing people who were recently your peers or walking into a team that’s never met you.