Recently I got the chance to hear from many different senior officials from several different companies. One of the officials is working towards a similar goal as mine which is to build complete teams that can deliver a single thing and have a driving feature of revenue as the final mark.
What stood out to me was the way in which we are each are going about the implantation. The Vice president spends his days politicking other Vice Presidents, C-Levels, and the Board to allow him the budget to do this. Strangely it is very similar to what I have to do, convince my peers, my Vice President, and try and convince the ones above me or try to get the support. The larger problem is the structures at my vice president and above tend to work towards splitting this up.
I will probably talk more about the complete team and my thoughts on in in a later entry. But for now, I have just gotten back from a week of travel and need to rest.