Advice For N.Y.'s New Governor

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 A new governor normally takes about two months to set an agenda before taking the helm. For example, after Eliot Spitzer was elected governor of New York in 2006, he had the help of a 300-member transition team and a half-million-dollar budget to get his house in order. But for New York’s new, as of today, governor David Paterson, four days was all he got to prepare to manage a job with a $124 billion budget and more than 191,000 employees. 

Starting a new job is never easy, especially when your first day is marred by the previous governor’s shameful exit. MainStreet asked some experts for some hot tips.

Tip #1 – Be Sensitive

“There have been a great many wounds left in the administration either because of the way Spitzer went in and asserted himself or because of the scandal and it’s important for him to pay attention that there’s going to be need for some healing,” says Phyllis Rosen, a career management and executive coach in New York. “It shouldn’t be the elephant in the room. He doesn’t have to get up in front of the New York state congress, but he needs to acknowledge there is damage.”