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Why New Leaders Lose Teams in the First 90 Days
Most leaders enter their first ninety days believing they are in a grace period. Time to listen. Time to observe. Time to get comfortable before real expectations take hold. Organizations reinforce this thinking with onboarding plans, listening tours, and early-win checklists designed to ease the transition.
That framing is comforting. It is also wrong.
The first ninety days are not a warm-up. They are an exposure window. This is when leaders unknowingly reveal how they think under uncertainty, how they use authority before trust exists, and whether they understand the system they just inherited. Long before results shift, teams are already deciding how safe it is to be honest, how much effort is worth investing, and how closely they need to manage around leadership to protect themselves.
Teams do not wait for performance data to make these judgments. They cannot afford to. Leadership change increases risk, and risk sharpens attention. Every early decision, pause, reaction, and inconsistency is interpreted as evidence of what kind of leader just arrived.
That judgment begins immediately. Quietly. Permanently.