Tag: assimilate
Get vaguely right first
Wharton professor Len Lodish used to say "It's better to be vaguely right than precisely wrong". That thought has helped me prioritize things for a long time and keep my…
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Onboarding Notions
"Hurry up. Toytime is over. Everyone is back from books. It's time for preces." This was my welcome into my new school, Winchester College. What was abundantly clear was that…
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Internal Consistency
I had worked flat out for 16 hours writing up a market share summary. It went through countless iterations as it worked its way up my management ladder. Finally, my…
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Erroneous Onboarding Assumptions
I'm giving a talk on onboarding in Lima, Peru this morning. I've decided to turn it into a conversation instead of a talk because I'm not sure which of my…
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Onboarding into a Soap Opera
TV Soap Operas Most television series devolve into soap operas over time. As explained in that source of all true knowledge, Wikipedia, “most soap operas follow the lives of a…
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Onboarding Politics
Eleven jurors thought former Illinois governor, Rod Blagojevich, was guilty of several mis-deeds including trying to sell a U.S. Senate seat. One juror held out because she thought it was…
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Fitting in and standing out when onboarding
For a new leader converging and evolving is generally the right approach to their own onboardign. Purely assimilating into a new organization is the easiest and safest approach over the…
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Relationships are more Important than being Right when Onboarding
The first thing my new boss explained to me on my first day was that my top priority was managing the production of the new advertising campaign – and getting…
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Judo Onboarding
Judo onboarding is the art of adapting well to changing circumstances and using someone else’s momentum to further your aims as you onboard into a new job. There are three…
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