The inside story of Trump’s shambolic transition team

Positing this for the lessons learned factor that founders and managers can take away for private businesses.

I've had a number of clients who had little if any onboarding or transition processes and/or lots of organizational debt [1]. I've lost count of the number of times where I was almost immediately delivering value to a new client by simply documenting what I discovered about the company and how it worked while I was onboarding myself.

It was quite fascinating to me that the US administration is required to onboard successor administrations by law. If I am not mistaking, the way we do the same across Europe is to keep the administration basically in place and only change the people at the very top. The UK case is delectably documented in the Yes, Minister sitcom [2].

[1]: https://steveblank.com/2015/05/19/organizational-debt-is-lik...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister