LOOKING THROUGH MY ANNUAL STRATEGY DOCS FOR THE 00’s. (personal)(entrepreneurshi

LOOKING THROUGH MY ANNUAL STRATEGY DOCS FOR THE 00’s.

(personal)(entrepreneurship)

Didn’t realize I was carrying them around on my hard drive. 🙂 It was entertaining. Looking back over more than a decade, six months of long discursive documents at a time, and sort of re-living the experience.

One thing that I tried, other than ‘sovereignty’ for employees as a cultural and recruiting strategy, was to follow the Good To Great data on internal production of talent. I had always had the opposite view, and the GTG idea worked. I don’t really buy the GTG simple message thing. I mean, you need to be very good at what you need to be good at. But that’s just a starting point.

DAY 0 Collecting the founders for an industry opportunity.

DAY 1 Owner-Operator Goals. (must be the same)

DAY 2 Basic market strategy given the era, location, customer base.

DAY 3 Minimum capital strategy – how to do it for free or less. 🙂

Year 1 Organizational culture, processes and systems

Year 2 Talent acquisition at all costs (create a magnet)

Year 3 Building a management team, and systems from within

Year 4 Extending the product and service line through acquisition.

(I start to see the economy at catastrophic risk, and with it, Microsoft’s future. And these two events mean that if I don’t do something the future is unsustainable.)

Year 5 Extending the geography through acquisition

Year 6 Extending growth rate by adding capital.

By now I can see that the economy will collapse fairly soon and that it will stay down for a very long time, and that I will need to sell the business OR get enough cash to go on a buying spree after the crash. But that with our high dependence on Microsoft and our regional basis, It’s a death sentence to try to build a large company

Year 7 Increasing the short term value of the company in prep for a raise, trying to beat the obviously-collapsing economy.

Didn’t work. Why? Couldn’t get the data from accounting.

— crash —

Year 8 Selling off a profitable and large section of the business.

Only mistakes I made that were really big, was that when I resigned I didn’t stay resigned. 🙂 Should have just stuck with it. Loyalty and all.

Won’t do that again. 🙂 lol