Getting visibility

One of the things that always ticked me off about the corporate world was "visibility." As a business owner you want your company and your product to get "visibility" and any visibility you personally get is inherently helping the business. That's not how it is in the corporate world.

People in the same company are competing for INDIVIDUAL "visibility" so that they can look better to their superiors and get a promotion and make more money. It's like a big kiss-ass competition to see who can kiss the most ass. Enemies form where partnerships should be forming, and the adversary becomes Bob in the cubicle down the hall and not the competitors product. Your goal becomes playing golf with the VP and not busting your stones to increase sales...mostly because that has a better chance at increasing YOUR bottom line.

This all popped into my head a few minutes ago when I was thinking back to a meeting with my boss who "sold" me on a new project because it would give me greater "visibility" within the company. It seemed stupid then and it really seems stupid now.