original publish date: 23rd May, 2010

decades on …

The ACTUAL Corporate Coming of Age is belatedly realising stakeholders literally hold the stakes.

And, maybe, just maybe, your super-awesome innovative approach doesn’t look as super-awesome if you’re the one who owns the risk of it being super-wrong.

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FTE #1: I discarded the plan that would have helped and proposed the one they were most likely to agree with.

FTE #2: Your training is complete, grasshopper.

Caption: Corporate Coming of Age. The moment you understand that stakeholder acceptance always trumps the greater good.