Talking with CFO
October 16, 2007 from Pawel Brodzinski
I came across a note about communication with CFO (found via PMThink) about project funding. My first reaction was: “Why the heck those two guys should actually organize a kind of semi-informal meeting just to exchange a couple of messages.” And can there really be a problem in that place?
After a second I corrected myself: “Remember, you work for a small organization, you don’t even have a formal role of either type out there.” We just leave politics outside and don’t even try (as far as I know) to play office wars. That’s cool about small organizations.
But yes, when I come back to times when I worked for Comarch, which is a company big enough to bring all inconveniences of being corporation but not yet mature enough to offer all of its bonuses too (although I’ve heard it’s improving a bit), it start to sound familiar to environment Naomi Grossman on bMighty presents. In that situation the advice is quite a reasonable one, although I wouldn’t bet it’ll work very often. When politics is involved and office wars are on everyday schedule you shouldn’t really expect much of one lunch with your enemy… I mean adversary. Go then and take your CFO for lunch (if you have any) as the investment isn’t a big one, but don’t expect much outcome.
And if you don’t have CFO, lucky you.
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