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> charged with figuring out an emerging disruptive industry change And did you? — I'm really curious as to whether there ended up being a positive ROI from ded

• neilv 7y ago
  Yes, we figured it out. The ROI question is complicated (and I'm a techie, not an MBA). At some point, old product line management appeared and took over everything about the new product line, bringing in much/most of the company's engineers and managers. I stayed on for this new phase. I later had a rapport with some people who'd had executive-level visibility, who confided a few bits of why some things happened, but I don't have enough information (nor MBA qualifications) to distill useful lessons from that here. I'll just say my sense is that the original team performed well for the organization, and then organization things changed outside the team. My personal ROI: moving to that group might've been the best decision I ever made. I learned a tremendous amount, got to work with great people, and afterwards it catapulted my career in the direction I wanted to go. Had I not been determined to go to grad school, I would've followed the original team lead anywhere.