Dear Bob ...On your explanation of why corporations exist, Bob, ("The reason corporations exist," Advice Line, 4/20/2008) I don't think you're full of beans ... on this one, at least :-)Just read an interview today with Jeremy Jaech that I thought punctuated one of your points. "MJ: Startups are both exciting and unpredictable; how do you keep your team focused on the big picture, especially when there’s resista Dear Bob …On your explanation of why corporations exist, Bob, (“The reason corporations exist,” Advice Line, 4/20/2008) I don’t think you’re full of beans … on this one, at least 🙂Just read an interview today with Jeremy Jaech that I thought punctuated one of your points. “MJ: Startups are both exciting and unpredictable; how do you keep your team focused on the big picture, especially when there’s resistance to growth or acquisition?JJ: It’s a lot of work. It’s one of the three or four jobs that leadership has, is to constantly go around and reiterate the important goals, make sure people understand how what they do fits into the larger picture and supports it in some way.It’s a part of the work, as an organization gets bigger and bigger there’s some information loss as it moves down the chain and the only way to keep people on track is to keep repeating it in front of them all the time. As Visio grew, it was a really important as CEO to go around to team meetings and department meetings and say, here’s what we’re focused on as a company and here’s how what you do supports it. And to just keep saying it, and as you do that, people get snapped in. Then they start to drift, and so you got to come back to snap ‘em back; and they start to drift, snap ‘em back, they start to drift, snap ‘em back. That’s just human nature.”Regards,Bruce Gutzmann Bruce …It’s always good to get reinforcement from those who have done the actual work. Thanks for the sharp eye.– Bob Technology Industry