Leadership17 Mar 2026
Time to Productivity Is a Design Choice
Leaders onboarded through a structured programme reach full contribution 2.4× faster. The mechanism is unglamorous.
The gap between a fast and a slow start is rarely about the individual's capability. It is about how long it takes them to find out who actually decides.
Structured onboarding compresses that discovery from months to weeks, and the effect compounds through the first year.
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