Big Red Car here looking for some labor love. Nah, I’m way overstocked in love, but I do want to talk about how the labor picture looks in the United States.
The top line shout out is — low unemployment, wage gains, and more job openings than people to fill them, but the real picture requires us to look a little deeper. So, we shall.
OK, I get it. It’s not labor day, but we’re talking “labor” right? If you have a job, every day is labor day.
Talking about execution advantage, y’all.
Big Red Car here on a slightly grayish day in the ATX. ATX just hosted the famous ACL festival and had Paul McCartney in town crooning. Ahhhh, on Earth as it is in Texas.
Sir Paul rocking it in the ATX at ACL at age 76 years young. Big deal in Austin, but just another day in the Live Music Capital of the USA.
So, I have been thinking about the advantages a company — startup or otherwise — has in executing its strategic plan. One of the most overlooked advantages is simply being good at executing their day to day operations.
What got me thinking about this was two things – some comments on the Amazon Advantage and a comment from a Berlin based venture capitalist, Max Niederhofer. I call him Mad Max.
He recently wrote an interesting piece which merits your review: Fear and Loathing in Venture Capital <<< go read this Read it and leave a comment. Tell him the Big Red Car sent you.
Rainy day in paradise, so we talk about mistakes today.
If you are a CEO for more than twenty minutes, you will make a mistake. Sorry. Truth.
Mistakes fall into four general categories:
1. Foot faults, like using the wrong fork with shellfish;
2. Minimal consequences to someone on the team faux pas;
3. Adverse consequences to a client or critical stakeholder; and,
4. Burn the house down mistakes.
So what do you do?
Big Red Car here, following the unending saga of Elon Musk of Tesla fame and his continuing dialog with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Just want to [say] that the Shortseller Enrichment Commission is doing incredible work. And the name change is so on point!” Tweeted by Elon Musk.
Is this the smart play?
Elon Musk taking a toke to release his inhibitions?
Success should be celebrated.
Big Red Car here on a sunny Friday in the ATX, on Earth as it is in Texas, y’all!
So, we are speaking about how a startup celebrates the victories – the successes – it enjoys during those formative years.
ISIS? Yes, today, we talk about ISIS.
Big Red Car here, y’all, on a lovely bright Austin By God Texas day. Ahhh, on Earth as it is in Texas!
So, in the furor of recent events, a big story has been missed: The US and its coalition partners have the last pocket of organized ISIS resistance surrounded and they are methodically and systematically eliminating them.
US leadership, air power, artillery, supplies, and allied bayonets. A smart way to fight.
This is big news.
So, your Big Red Car gets a whiny email from a friend who says, “You should put all the CEO Shoptalk blog posts in one place.”
Guy is the laziest son-of-a-bitch on the planet who apparently can’t use the SEARCH function on the right column of this blog, but I like him so I do it.
Here it is – CEO Shoptalk.
Time allocation is a critical consideration for the CEO of any size enterprise, but particularly for CEOs of small businesses and startups.
Big Red Car here. Been in Savannah spending time with My Perfect Granddaughter offspring of My Perfect Daughter, the red head.
So, when I am there, I get into a convo with a young C-suite type guy and we are discussing how a startup or small company CEO should allocate his time.
It is a conversation I’ve had with a million CEOs. It is a universal problem faced by all CEOs.
How does one allocate their time as the company is faced with growth in a crawl, walk, run scenario?
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