Here’s what I’ve learned on Day One of my new job with Karen Fisher:
By noon, I’d been given two things: a real project (not busywork) and permission to disagree with her. “If you agree with me all the time,” she said, “one of us is unnecessary.” karen fisher my new job
There’s a specific kind of quiet that falls over an office when a new leader walks in. Not the nervous hush of an inspection—more like the stillness before a good storm. That’s the quiet that followed Karen Fisher this morning. Here’s what I’ve learned on Day One of
For the first time in years—I can’t wait to find out. That’s the quiet that followed Karen Fisher this morning
And I have no idea what she’ll ask me tomorrow.
I’d heard the rumors before I accepted the role. “Demanding,” they said. “Sees around corners.” One former colleague described her as the only manager who could make a spreadsheet feel like a mission statement.