CHAPTER 22
Onboarding is the hidden growth engine.
The first ninety days of a senior hire is where the strategy is either transferred or quietly lost.
PROMPT ONE
The last senior hire you made — did you hand them a strategy, or did you hand them a job and assume they'd find the strategy themselves?
PROMPT TWO
If your most recent senior hire walked in tomorrow and asked what's the strategy here, could you put a single page in front of them — or would you spend an hour trying to articulate it?
PROMPT THREE
What's the conversation your most recent senior hire is privately wishing they'd had with you when they joined — and have you had it yet?
PROMPT FOUR
If onboarding is the strategy itself, how much of your senior leadership's onboarding was actually strategy, versus paperwork, introductions, and access?
MORE IN THIS SECTION
- CH 18Context disrupts experience.
- CH 19The power of the collective.
- CH 20From abundance to execution.
- CH 21What steers you through the messy middle.
- CH 23Give your people what they actually want.
- CH 24What to share — and what not to.
- CH 25Integrity and belief.
- CH 26No one is buying your job.
- CH 27There's no glory in an exit.