Chapter 3

Radioactive Elements

“Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it.” Those words kept rolling around in my mind as I considered what I’d gotten myself into.

For two years, I’d been trying to convince our CEO and chief talent management officer that we needed to create a director of organizational learning position (and that I was the right person for the job). They finally agreed, and now I was worried that they were wondering what I was doing with all my time.

As our organization expanded, new people were being hired and needed to be onboarded in quick succession, but hiring managers refused to send their new employees to our ...

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