Comments on: The Two Most Powerful People in an Organization http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/05/the-two-most-powerful-people-in-an-organization/?&owa_from=feed&owa_sid= Career, Personal & Commercial Development for IT Professionals, IT Leaders & IT Freelancers Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:40:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: simonstapleton http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/05/the-two-most-powerful-people-in-an-organization/#comment-246 simonstapleton Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:27:04 +0000 http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=223#comment-246 @Mark - anyone in a role that supports the rest of the organization or key people is in a very powerful position. OK they might not be able to use their authority to deliberately and publically get in the way, but many small things can be a pain in the butt. E.g. putting your request at the bottom of a pile, or 'forgetting' you called, etc. @Mark - anyone in a role that supports the rest of the organization or key people is in a very powerful position. OK they might not be able to use their authority to deliberately and publically get in the way, but many small things can be a pain in the butt. E.g. putting your request at the bottom of a pile, or ‘forgetting’ you called, etc.

]]> By: Mark McClure Coaching http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/05/the-two-most-powerful-people-in-an-organization/#comment-245 Mark McClure Coaching Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:00:57 +0000 http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=223#comment-245 Simon - it gets even more interesting when (middle) management shares a PA lol! Now that is one powerful woman (sorry, I've yet to meet a male PA in UK or Japan.) Just to go off tangent slightly - as one of the technical foot soldiers I left it to my manager to manage the layer 8 guys (lol!) and the 2 most important people for me then became (apart from my own boss): - The Cabling team (a layer 1 problem on a sat afternoon change window and it's good night "change window" and hello "star chamber". (No water-boarding though !! ;-) - The Procurement Team lead who can help oil the mouse in the hand of the MD who is holding up the internal approval on a project purchase which is critical to the timeline he/she is the sponsor of lol! Simon - it gets even more interesting when (middle) management shares a PA lol! Now that is one powerful woman (sorry, I’ve yet to meet a male PA in UK or Japan.)

Just to go off tangent slightly - as one of the technical foot soldiers I left it to my manager to manage the layer 8 guys (lol!) and the 2 most important people for me then became (apart from my own boss):

- The Cabling team (a layer 1 problem on a sat afternoon change window and it’s good night “change window” and hello “star chamber”. (No water-boarding though !! ;-)

- The Procurement Team lead who can help oil the mouse in the hand of the MD who is holding up the internal approval on a project purchase which is critical to the timeline he/she is the sponsor of lol!

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