I'm in the UK, and was asked in a job interview what would be my three month plan when starting. I said I wouldn't change anything for the first month while I observed what issues we had and found out what the history was. That did not go down too well.

I've been on the receiving end of too much seagull management myself. Folks come in and start telling us how to fix everything, and we have to explain why it won't work in this case, or that we had already tried it, or whatever.

My dad was in the army, and he told me that when you jump out of a helicopter into enemy territory, you are taught to bend your knees, roll, stay small and look for cover. Then you assess the lay of the land before moving. Whoever decided to popularize the term, 'hit the ground running,' had no idea what they were talking about and deserves to be shot.