Erik Moeller wrote: > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> Many organizations have dozens or hundreds of vice presidents, like Vice >> President of Vending Machines and Vice President of Pencil Sharpeners. > > Heh. I've certainly been in the VP of Odds and Ends role before. :) > > A little bit of context. As Stu and Kaldari mentioned, the VP title is > fairly common in the US, where it's actually often situated below the > "C-level" in the org. The reason Sue and I agreed on the title VP of > Engineering/Product for the engineering department has more to do with > the organizational vocabulary in this part of the world, where that > title does carry a very specific meaning relative to the CTO title. > You can read more about the differences in these posts: > > http://wp.me/PDnCk-DZ > http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2007/10/cto-vs-vp-engineering.html > http://falseprecision.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/10/cto-vs-vp-engin.html
Thanks for the insight here. :-) Much appreciated. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
