Tuesday Morning
Sam started the day by making appointments to meet with his counterparts in other departments.
He called the Director of Marketing and left this message: “Sam Morgan here. I want to introduce myself. I started yesterday. I’m just learning the lay of the land. I’d like to set up a time to meet with you in a week or so when I have more information about what’s going on in this department.” He also made an appointment with his boss, the VP of Product Development and the Director of Operations.
At 10:30 Tuesday morning, Sam had a half hour to walk around the department. He wanted to hear the tone of conversations and feel the mood and energy of the people. Even though Sam had a “getting to know you” pizza lunch scheduled for ...
Get Behind Closed Doors now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
