Before I became a conglomerate building business person, I maintained a steady presence in the bleachers, watching others make mistakes I was too smart to make. I saw the demise of Palm, K-Mart, Sears (both times), Nokia (it's almost here), and a few others well before their executives did. Or so I thought. Everything changed for me the day I found those business text books in the dumpster. That fortuitous discovery altered my path and made me into the mess I am today. Had I realized sooner why those books were in the bin in the first place, I might have refrained from bringing them home. Now the fungus has spread to a point that I can no longer hope to contain it. I need to give these books to someone as a holiday gift.
It turns out I'm much wiser now, and I realize that I didn't know anything about the stress and hardship involved in running a business when I was doing my criticism thing. Decisions are never made in a vacuum, and it is a lot easier for someone who has nothing at stake to make firm choices that impact other people's lives. Job creators have to think about that kind of minutiae every hour of every day. It is exhausting.
Everything looks so simple when observed from an elevated position. The situation isn't quite so simple when you are on the ground in the middle of it. It was so easy for me to make judgments about any given CEO's efficacy, just based on the amount of negative news reports generated by their missteps. I also have a magic talisman that looks sort of like an eight ball that always helped provide rock solid data on struggling companies. That talisman helped build AcMo into what it is today, but don't you dare tell it I said that because I am not about to split half of my fortune with an inanimate object that may or may not house spirits. I am not afraid of a hex or some sort of curse as a form of reprisal for not sharing either. It won't be the first time I've been hexed, and it won't be the last.
Success breeds success, and I have seen the truth in that. My incoming funds greet the outgoing ones at the door, so even though we have achieved unprecedented success, it is short-lived since the expenditures never stop. Once I get a handle on the outflow part, I think we will survive. This is happening despite the bad lesson I learned from the first page of one of my dumpster business textbooks. I should sue the publisher, writer, and any university that utilized these books. I think I have a strong case, and of course I have a legitimate and demonstrable damage claim.
Everything looks so simple when observed from an elevated position. The situation isn't quite so simple when you are on the ground in the middle of it. It was so easy for me to make judgments about any given CEO's efficacy, just based on the amount of negative news reports generated by their missteps. I also have a magic talisman that looks sort of like an eight ball that always helped provide rock solid data on struggling companies. That talisman helped build AcMo into what it is today, but don't you dare tell it I said that because I am not about to split half of my fortune with an inanimate object that may or may not house spirits. I am not afraid of a hex or some sort of curse as a form of reprisal for not sharing either. It won't be the first time I've been hexed, and it won't be the last.
Success breeds success, and I have seen the truth in that. My incoming funds greet the outgoing ones at the door, so even though we have achieved unprecedented success, it is short-lived since the expenditures never stop. Once I get a handle on the outflow part, I think we will survive. This is happening despite the bad lesson I learned from the first page of one of my dumpster business textbooks. I should sue the publisher, writer, and any university that utilized these books. I think I have a strong case, and of course I have a legitimate and demonstrable damage claim.
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