The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter

people talk openly about difficult issues without fear of retribution?

Ends versus means. Are there any restrictions on how you achieve results?

As early as possible, get access to publicly available information about financials, products, strategy, and brands.

Planning to learn means figuring out in advance what the important questions are and how you can best answer them

habitually find yourself too anxious or too busy to devote time to learning, you may suffer from the action imperative. It is a serious affliction, because often, being too busy to learn results in a death spiral

you need to establish new communication channels to stay connected with what is happening where the action is

inescapable reality of promotion is that you attract much more attention and a higher level of scrutiny than before

What is culture? It’s a set of consistent patterns people follow for communicating, thinking, and acting, all grounded in their shared assumptions and values

every organization typically has a shared language—a long list of acronyms, for instance, describing business units, products, processes, projects, and other elements of the company. So it’s essential that you invest early on in learning to speak like the locals

Are meetings filled with dialogue on hard issues, or are they simply forums for publicly ratifying agreements that have been reached in private?