Response time, readiness, and experiments

All of us will prefer adequate time to learn ropes of a role.  But is that always possible?

Sometimes turnaround time expected in a role is very small- response to situation has to be immediate and effective almost from day/week 1.

How do you prepare for such roles? - when you are unsure of what's going to come your  way and when, and additionally responses are expected almost immediately.

Forming tentative hypothesis, and experimenting may be way to go in such cases.  

You create tentative hypothesis (even around territorial scope of your work), define a problem statement, and then go about trying to find a solution.   

You do this in your free time and even possibly before you have taken on the role.

Through this way you give yourself a better chance of performing from day/week 1 in such roles.

I am reminded of something I had found once relevant – we may not be able to control the situation we are in but we surely can control our response – as long as we know what is it that we are trying to achieve!

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Sourav