The great comedian Groucho Marx said: “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
To help you get off to a great start spend some time talking with your new colleagues and learning about the mistakes that others have made.
With one company I’ve worked with new employees would get into trouble if they were frequently late to meetings. In another company there were strict rules about safety that, if broken, would put you in hot water. And in another being less-than-attentive to a customer on the showroom floor would get you a pink slip.
If you’re like the rest of us, you’ll make your own mistakes when you start a new gig, but there’s no reason to make mistakes that others before you have made.
Groucho Marx was right—you don’t have enough time to make all those other mistakes. Listen and learn.
It’s a new day. Let’s make it a great one.
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Mark Hirschfeld 
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