One thing that has always puzzled me in business is that once someone gets good at something, they probably stop doing it.
For instance, (while its not the best practice) successful sales people are often moved up to management where they don’t do any more selling. Great buyers get promoted so they don’t have to do the buying anymore.
The higher up you move the more likely you are to plan and the less likely you are to actually “do” and while that might be just dandy for career tracking and personal development, it means that the dirty end of the stick- the work- the executions- are handled by the least experienced and sadly often least capable people.
Am I the only one who has a problem with that?
Selling a business service, we make sales calls, hold meetings and promise benefits to Directors and VP’s, but when push comes to shove the actual campaign work is most often executed by a comparatively junior person with precious little oversight. And that’s what there needs to be more of, oversight and supervision on those seemingly insignificant, but truly deal breaking details.
Ideas are a dime a dozen guys. What separates brilliant from mediocre is all execution.