Doing the things listed here as a VP by Emily Nakashima sounds all nice and well (maybe fun even for some people), but the core deliverables of alignment and focus are the real test: both are impossibly hard to achieve and worth their weight in gold.

What you need on day one is to ratchet up expectations, energy, urgency, and intensity.

“Success in knowledge isn’t about the facts we know, but by how good we are at judging the truth of uncertain things.”