Most early leadership failures are preventable if you treat your onboarding like the strategy project it actually is. Too often, I’ve seen people in big new jobs figure out that they needed coaching only after they stumbled. They failed to gain their team’s trust, got off to an awkward start with their new boss, unwittingly alienated people they needed on their side or came in swinging without taking time to understand why things are the way they are at their new organization

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I talk to a lot of people who are anxious about AI taking their jobs. Until recently, I wasn’t all that concerned about my own.