It all depends on how the new guy is introduced.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a new CEO or the new MBA sharing your office cubicle
tucked away among 3000 other employees, you need to be properly introduced if you’re going to work well together.
Some reasonable questions to be answered:
How was the new guy selected and recruited?
What is his or her background experience and qualifications for the job?
What are the shared values and beliefs that will affect decision making and performance?
Will their work habits and management style fit with our corporate culture and work environment?
Are they more familiar with military style hard-ass command and control management practices or with flexible, open, participative management and commitments to effective teamwork?
More experienced in large corporate organisations with strong professional support or in small entrepreneurial businesses improvising creative solutions in real time?
Get satisfactory answers to those reasonable questions; check your level of enthusiasm for working with the new guy; then come to a rational conclusion for yourself and your own career plans.
Then what?
Is it time for a friendly handshake and, “Welcome aboard. I look forward to working with you.” Or is it time to reflect on your future and conclude, “Good luck and goodbye. This isn’t going to work for me.”
It’s your choice.
Be better. Do Better. Be an Enlightened Entrepreneur.
Del Chatterson, your Uncle Ralph
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