Successful transitions do not require new executives to have all the answers, this is  amongst key findings from a recent McKinsey Global Survey on executive transitions, which asked C-level respondents how they manage the business, culture, team, and self-management aspects of their new jobs. While there is no single predictor of success in a new role, the practices linked most closely to an overall effective transition include the importance of aligning organisations on what not to do as well as to explain what they would do in their initial agendas. They rely more than others on their initial team of direct reports and spend more time learning about organisational culture as well as receiving more support and resources from their organisations resulting in being better able to spend time and energy understanding the issues they are able to influence.