The surrealist corporation
by koen on Jul.07, 2007, under Innovation
Let me tell you a story today. I find it so hilarious that I wanted to share it with you. It showed that Scott Adams is still finding new Dilberts stories in real corporations.
We are assisting an enterprise in a strategic innovation exercise. Recently, our consultant who is taking care of this mission participated in an important conference call. The topic of the conf call was to set the scene and define budget targets in a multi-year plan.
Most of the management of the enterprise was present in the phone call, along with some other consultants.
A manager that has been supporting the innovative ideas was presiding this call. The meeting was directed towards a very disruptive innovation by this manager. It would change most aspects of our clients business model over the next few years dramatically.
The chairperson of the meeting made very strong commitments to the future and all participants were very enthusiast about the ideas of that one manager.
At that time, our consultant received in its mailbox an official communication, issued by the top management of the enterprise, stating that this one manager (who at that time was on the phone aggressively committing to a path with bold changes) had resigned from the company and would be leaving within the next ten days…
