In your view, how important to your enduring success in a job are your early efforts in a new leadership role? Presuming you already have practiced some or all of the 10 items:

• enter into an established leader/employee "network";
• sense, as well as use, appropriate communication and influence behaviors;
• sense and appropriately act on keen organizational norms;
• become aware of, and sensitively interact with, organizational "blockers" and "enablers";
• build political bridges by identifying and relating to key formal/informal power sources;
• become known as a "go-to/can-do" individual;
• be perceived as a "team player";
• sense key organizational issues upon which to create early vision, initiatives, and value;
• identify and appropriately respond to the requirements of superiors/peers/subordinates; and
• be perceived as having organizationally appropriate ethics, values, and beliefs.

how did you learn to do so?