Article: My first 100 days in office. (2002 Route to the Top).

No longer do newcomers to the corner office have time to warm up before hitting their stride. Chief executives are expected to deliver ASAP -- and the decisions made in the first 100 days in office are seen as crucial indicators of a company's future course.

With that in mind, CE asked Richard H. Brown, CEO of Electronic Data Systems Corp., to recall his first 100 days in office and how he laid the groundwork for the company's dramatic reorganization, which resulted in $85 billion worth of new long-term contracts, and a stock price that's up some 41 percent since he joined, despite the high-tech downturn.

Brown insists that he had no strategic plan in ...

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