Bill Canady says a new CEO's first 100 days are the only chance to change things without it looking like an endorsement of the status quo. He lays out a four-meeting framework for Phase 1, where the order of the meetings matters as much as what happens in them.
Your first 100 days are the only clean pass you get at establishing command. On day 101, you're not the new CEO anymore. You're just the CEO. And every single thing you didn't change is now something you endorse. So the question isn't whether you have a plan. Everybody has a plan. The question is what your first 100 days are actually made of. I'm going to show you how they're made of 4 meetings, or I'm going to show you how they should be made of 4 meetings. Okay, the 4 meetings, 100 days, that's the whole structure of Phase 1, and I want you to hold it in that shape because the sequence matters as much as the content.
