First Ninety Days: The Senior External Hire
DolceDrago 342 — a skill for entering an organisation that did not ask for you
Variant of Nº087 — First Ninety Days Entry Plan
What it is
The entry plan for the executive the organisation did not choose: a predecessor whose work people are proud of, a function that closes ranks, and a mandate described three ways by three people. Fixes the order — verify the mandate in writing before spending any authority, adopt before you change, and let the incumbent team deliver the first win. For directors and general managers entering an organisation that is defending itself.
What you receive
the first ninety days of a senior external appointment run as a political entry — the three versions of why you were hired, a map of who lost by your appointment, a legacy inventory that buys the right to change the fourth thing, and a mandate memo corrected in writing by your sponsor before day 30
Delivered as a single, complete .md skill file — open it, paste it into any capable chat model, and work. No installation, no account with anyone but us.
Supported models
- Claude (Opus/Sonnet)
- ChatGPT (GPT-4o/5)
- Gemini
- any capable chat model
People reach for it when
- “first 90 days as an external hire nobody wanted”
- “brought in from outside and the team is closing ranks”
- “my mandate is not what they told me at interview”
- “how to follow a founder or long serving predecessor”
- “the exec team disagrees about what i was hired for”
Record
lineage: variant · parent 087
gates passed: demand-evidence · function-fit · beats-the-blank-page
status: IN THE COLLECTION
Sale-time bench runs and the fix-or-refund log attach to this record when the payment room opens.
In the collection. The sale room is being fitted; this work goes on sale when it opens.
Join the house — be written to when sales openBack to the collectionLicense
Free-shelf works ship under the DolceDrago House License — use the outputs freely, personal or commercial; the work file itself stays with the house.