The number of people you need to ask for permission keeps going down:
1. Go, make something happen.
2. Do work you're proud of.
3. Treat people with respect.
4. Make big promises and keep them.
5. Ship it out the door.
When in doubt, see #1.
Actually, there are some companies where the need for permission remains the same: HR policies, IT policies, legal policies, PR and corp comm policies...
What I learned in my 15 years of working as a corporate minion could be summarized by Seth Godin's 5 step plan for anything and everything.
On the five rules, Number 3 - treating people with respect - is basic, basic, basic - and no one is exempt from it no matter how high on the corp ladder she/he is.
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