Microspeak: who's in charge here?
drive To push; to captain the initiative on a particular issue or project. "Ed is driving the HTML issue for the product." own To take responsibility for an issue. Ownership is even more serious than drivership; you can drive an issue without owning it, but it's unlikely that you would own it without also driving it (just like automobiles, in fact). Syn - Champion (as a verb; to "champion the issue"). Variant - Owning the Vision: Ownership on a loftier, almost metaphysical level. © Ken Barnes	Control of funding, or dishing out the bucks, is perhaps a safer level, if not loftier, than 'owning the vision' - as a vision without a budget is only a dream...

Microspeak: who's in charge here?

drive: To push; to captain the initiative on a particular issue or project. "Ed is driving the HTML issue for the product."

own: To take responsibility for an issue. Ownership is even more serious than drivership; you can drive an issue without owning it, but it's unlikely that you would own it without also driving it (just like automobiles, in fact). Syn - Champion (as a verb; to "champion the issue"). Variant - Owning the Vision: Ownership on a loftier, almost metaphysical level.

Control of funding, or dishing out the bucks, is perhaps a safer level, if not loftier, than 'owning the vision' - as a vision without a budget is only a dream...

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