IT#11 Winnie-the-Pooh climbs a corporate ladder
#ITManagement #Management #OfficePolitics #CorporateParasites #Humor This article is an illustration of what I was talking about in IT#5 devoted to corporate parasites. When I was a child I really loved the books about Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne. But now, after decades in the world of large corporations, they sound a little different for me… Let's read, for example, the chapter "Chapter VIII In Which Christopher Robin Leads An Expotition To The North Pole", where the Hundred Acre Wood is a corporation, Christopher Robin is a C-level exec, and Winnie-the-Pooh is an employee. In the first sentence we see that Pooh actively cared about maintaining friendly relationships with C-level execs and visibility with them: One fine day Pooh had stumped up to the top of the Forest to see if his friend Christopher Robin was interested in Bears at all . More than that, he was very receptive to non-verbal signals and demonstrated readiness to support the management plans whatever t