> empower new hires to fix things as they go along.
This _sounds_ like a good idea but I haven't seen it really work in practice since new hires are by definition the least empowered.
Often problems are not small and local either but caused by general hairiness of older systems / docs / tools.
It seems like this could be made more powerful by making it the explicit task of an onboarding buddy (ie. experienced employee) to drive improvements together with them.
It's a difficult problem because there is a disappearing stakeholder, once the new hire gets through the friction with some help the motivation disappears quickly. This means for bigger problems that once they have the power to change it they have bigger fish to fry.
This _sounds_ like a good idea but I haven't seen it really work in practice since new hires are by definition the least empowered.
Often problems are not small and local either but caused by general hairiness of older systems / docs / tools.
It seems like this could be made more powerful by making it the explicit task of an onboarding buddy (ie. experienced employee) to drive improvements together with them.
It's a difficult problem because there is a disappearing stakeholder, once the new hire gets through the friction with some help the motivation disappears quickly. This means for bigger problems that once they have the power to change it they have bigger fish to fry.