How do you quickly become a strong team player in any environment? Assuming you are a new employee, how do you quickly become a known intellectual? The first thing is get everybody in the room. Ask them to write down what they think are the most pressing issues in the business now. Champion the cause and be the facilitator of the process so that members come up with the solutions. If you do so, you are effectively identifying the organizational pains and helping to fix them. Most of the time, challenges fall within low sales, high costs, poor reporting mechanism…