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3: The First 90 Days: How You Show Up and Integrate Yourself into a New Company with Connor McCarthy
Do not change yourself to fit the CEO mold. Mold the CEO title around you. Connor McCarthy is currently CEO of Beneco. Most recently, Connor served as Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Beneco. Prior, Connor worked as a Manager in Google’s Strategy and Operations group. He also spent time at McKinsey as a Business Analyst. Connor holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA in Economics from the University of Georgia. In this episode of Alpine Playbook Podcast Series, Connor McCarthy shares his experience being a new CEO of Beneco, the challenges he faced in terms of learning the overall domain of the company, his experience from his first boardroom meeting and steps he did to understand the company process, culture, and vocabulary.   Connect with Connor McCarthy: LinkedIn   Links/Resources: Alpine-investors.com Alpine Playbook Podcast The Board Book: An Insider's Guide for Directors and Trustees     Timestamps:   00:51  –Connor McCarthy's professional background as the CEO of Beneco 01:18  – What attracted him to join Alpine and the CIT program 04:05 – Steps he did to keep up with everything he has to learn about their products complexities and general domain in general for Beneco 06:29 – Understanding different positions and every process in the company to function well as a CEO and to raise the bar of excellence across the company 09:01 – Learning and appreciating the company culture to function as a new executive of the company, and culturally demonstrate your vision such as advocating continuous improvement 09:36 – His first quarter experience as a CEO 11:40 – How Connor assessed his team’s strengths and weaknesses in terms of hiring and retaining process 14:33 – ‘Blue Flame’: not just listening to what people want to do but also looking at what they are good at and what the business needs 15:34 – Feedback and Accountability 16:22– His first boardroom experience and what type of preparation he made for it 18:40– ‘The Three Big Things'  
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