The New Boss.

Yeah
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss.

- Pete Townshend

The new boss begins.

Spends 90 days listening, observing, learning.

Tick.

She meets with you, and while you’re wary about disclosing too much about your frustrations with the incompetence and dysfunction, her discerning questions reveal she gets it.

Tick.

A friend from the new boss’s old organisation confides in you that the new boss gets your workplace, but can’t make any changes yet.

Tick.

Four months in and the new boss asks your advice and you’re reassured that she gets it, and values your opinion on how to make changes.

Six months in and you’re in a meeting where the new boss asks some good questions and you see the other bosses subtly shut the new boss down. You sense this is not the first time the old bosses have put the new boss in her new boss place.

Nine months in and the new boss has a new car.

Twelve months in and the new boss is leading some projects with the old bosses and making decisions needing old boss approval and cooperation - and her ‘teamwork’ is publicly acknowledged by the old bosses.

Eighteen months in and the new boss is identified with many decisions made with the old bosses and your friend says he doesn’t speak much with the new boss and therefore can’t offer any insight into the new boss’s thinking these days.

Two years in and the new boss is an old boss and has ‘Chief’ added to her title.