Kindle Notes & Highlights
While trying to speed up your learning curve, understand the factors that influence it. This involves a good mix of technical domain, interpersonal skillsets, cultural aspect and political scenario. You may be acquainted with the more formal way the organisation functions, but it is up to you to understand how the organization functions informally too.
Everyone needs to work towards a single unified goal. A critical way to do this is to clearly work out the threats and opportunities within an organization and then analyse the strengths and weaknesses of a team level.
This sounds like constant SWOT and TOWS analysis.
negotiate what success means to you, your superiors and subordinates so that everyone can work towards a unified goal. This allows you to be clear about hard deadlines and facets that are flexible.
