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The first ninety days are mostly about listening
Everyone expects a new leader to act. The ones who last spend the first month finding out what nobody has told them.
A new role comes with a quiet pressure to prove you were the right hire. Most people answer it by doing something visible in the first fortnight.
The leaders I’ve seen last do the opposite. They book thirty conversations, ask the same three questions in each, and write down what surprises them.
By day sixty they know where the real problems are — and, just as useful, which ones everyone has already learned to live with.
Written by Daniela Reyes, executive coach. If this sounds like your week, start with a twenty-minute call.