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"Cultural trip wires" are preventing new executives from performing at their best from the outset, a leadership specialist says.

For example, there's often a disparity between where an organisational structure indicates power should be, versus where power is actually held, Russell Reynolds Associates executive director Ty Wiggins tells a new HR Daily Premium webcast.

Further, sometimes leaders find themselves unable to "get things done" in a new organisation because they lack the right networks and insider knowledge, and that can "knock their confidence", he says...