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THE FIRST TEN WEEKS
The first ten weeks of starting a new role as the leader of any team are
probably the most critical – get them wrong and you risk failure, get them
right and you will enjoy and thrive in your new role. What do you need to
do, where should you focus, and what must you avoid at all costs?
To enable the new leader to take control, the Fast Track manager will
seek to understand key facts, build relationships and develop simple
mechanisms for monitoring and control – establishing simple but effective
team processes. Again, this task will be simplified using modern technolo-
gies and so becomes effortless and part of day-to-day ...