It is so easy when recruiting, to look for ‘one of us’. I have worked in companies before when it was a real compliment to be called an ‘X Company’ person’. There certainly were lots of excellent things about this company and its reputation in developing people and being a great place to work was well justified.
On the downside, this brought a pressure to conform. In particular, to question the received wisdom of the position that the company’s products held in the hearts of the people who bought them.
When you had just been promoted or just got a new job, it is tempting to try a get to grips quickly with those unspoken and unwritten rules that help you to fit it. You want to reassure the people who hired you that they did not make a mistake, and you want to feel at home quickly.
Not many of us naturally strive to be out of step with our surroundings. Often subconsciously we find out which departments and who are in and who is out.
What we can end up assuming is that people outside our groups or departments are less able to think than we are.
Now that you are 3 months into your new job, what assumptions are you making about other people in your organisation that you were not making when you first started?
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