Suzy Welch: The No. 1 mistake you cannot afford to make at a new job via CNBCMakeIt
You've landed a brand new job. Congratulations! Now you can sit back and wait for your start date, right?
"You're excited. They're excited. What could possibly go wrong? Well, a lot, if you make this incredibly common mistake: not learning the history of your new company.""Do a Google search. Take a company veteran to coffee. Find out who started the company, and why.
Welch admits that she learned this lesson the hard way. In 1981, as a recent college graduate, Welch was working as a crime reporter at the Miami Herald. In the beginning, she says,"I wondered why so many police officers, whose information I desperately needed every day, were unfriendly to me. I hadn't done anything wrong yet!"
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