[marcinzm]

In my experience much of this is a question of trust, political capital and soft power. Find out the problems that the key players in the business are actually having that you can solve and then solve them. Find out what the key KPIs are for the business and make a plan to improve them and then have a plan to publicize that improvement. And make sure to hire a team that covers your weaknesses rather than exposes them. Don't fight people if you can help it, either they're as competent as you on average or you shouldn't have taken the job. Figure out how to help them and what they need to work more efficiently and then give it to them. Sure there's a ton of politics involved in all of that but that's management in general.