The situation“A new starter joined on Monday and I haven't onboarded them.”
Leaders who made the same call — what each did, and how it went.
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When Naomi Gleit walked into Facebook's Palo Alto office on Monday, 18 July 2005 — her 21st birthday — she was the 29th employee of a company with no formal onboarding process.
When Sheryl Sandberg walked into Facebook's offices on Monday, 24 March 2008 as the company's new Chief Operating Officer, she was thirty-eight, had run Google's Global Online Sales and Operations team for six and a half years, and had been hired by a twenty-three-year-old CEO whose direct reports had until recently been his Harvard roommates.
The Marines learned a hard lesson in the twentieth century: detailed plans don't survive contact with reality, and troops left without instructions in a collapsing plan freeze.
Laraway was a manager at Google.
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