Priority Objectives of Corporate Strategic PlanningFollow

Quoted for pollishness.

Just promise me you'll end your presentation with this:

Out of what, you and a kitten?

Don't underestimate the corporate power of a bossy kitten.

Video is relevant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57VbE0J9niw

Kitten decides who dies first.

The kitten also determines when to press the big red button. My analysis has shown that a kitten is better suited for this over watch duty than any human.

I'm not kidding.

Several times a day, if they're lucky.

On a similar note, I voted for option 2.

Helpful Tips & Tricks #127:
Do not identify specific individuals. Rather, identify a role and a target position you know to exist within the organization possessing the necessary skill & knowledge to accomplish the task. This indicates the appropriate level of thoughtfulness in addressing the project needs without presupposing consent by other area supervisors/managers and leaves it to the executive team to see to it that you get the resources requires to accomplish the task.

Well? How'd it go?

All about priority ranking for follow-through. You all made the list only because I had an extra line on my scratch pad.

I named names. At a small-mid size company, naming resources without being specific usually gives you the window lickers instead of the B-students. Knowing the other 5 objective leaders would name names, my only hope was to reply and be the first to request specific people along with the reason I needed that person.

The best part is that I was able to hand off another team I was chairing in the process. I built the team, started the laser lights and fog machine and then quietly left the building before anyone realized the band had no instruments. All the while being congratulated profusely for my stellar work on creating a high performance culture. Hell, they even handed me $1000 for going above and beyond.

I named names. At a small-mid size company, naming resources without being specific usually gives you the window lickers instead of the B-students. Knowing the other 5 objective leaders would name names, my only hope was to reply and be the first to request specific people along with the reason I needed that person.

At the beginning of the fiscal year where I consult, I could have booked about 100 hours a day based on the requests for me. I never thought I'd regret having a daily rate, but I can see why people don't do it now. I was also mistaken by a middle manager with a serious Napoleon complex for someone who somehow reported to him. He told me he'd "take my refusal to work on his project to the systems integration steering committee." Good luck with that, buddy. The last four RFPs they sent me are still sitting in my desk drawer, next to the magnetic zebra I hide periodically in the IT lab. The zebra's far, far more important to me. I should really probably hire someone.