When you’ve entered a new executive role, how have you gotten a pulse on and reacted to the organization's capacity for change?
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IT Director in Healthcare and Biotech7 months ago
In my experience, the most important part is to identify the change agents and key opinion leaders. Interviewing with them helps to understand the overall company and organization culture, appetite for change and how previous similar experiences went. Head of Transformation in Government6 months ago
You can learn a lot from the annual report. Just like researching investment or M&A, the financials and the strategic objectives and score card say much about the pulse of the company. Once entering, meeting the key people, assessing their objectives and dependencies, and trying to understand their influence, risk-aversion, motivations. Organisations are the sum of people, and so people skills are necessary for reading the agility of the organisation.CIO / Managing Partner in Manufacturing6 months ago
Start by asking lots of questions and listening carefully to the answers. Ask about success of previous initiatives and how they were received, probe about how people reacted to them.