The CRO Onboarding Checklist Nobody Writes Down

New CROs are usually handed a target, a team, and very little else. The strategic plan lives in someone's head, not a document.

The leaders who move fastest aren't the ones who act fastest — they're the ones who spend the first month building an evidence-based view of the business before changing anything.

That means talking to the people closest to the work, not just the people closest to the leadership team.