The truth is, if you’re an Ivy League MBA student chances are, you’re going to be a great employee in a strategies firm that focuses on regional economic turnaround or international expansion processes but you’re dreaming if you think you’ll spearhead a campaign or sit at the negotiation table and lead. It’s simple; you just won’t have the skills.
From one blog maniac to another, I feel that blogging gives us all an opportunity to express our opinions, good and bad, off the cuff and to the masses. I remember getting bad service in a Subway sandwich shop with my family, I sent out a twitter to my group and in 24 hours I received a personal apology from the franchise owner and the corporate office with a hefty supply of free food vouchers that literally lasted us a year. It’s nice to know that we are able to keep companies in check using social media.
The undertaking of a corporate start-up is as American as apple pie and denim jeans. Start-ups come and go like the tide but for a very small, in the know group of beneficiaries; they can attribute their successes to a group of five power-brokers that are responsible for some of the most earth shattering mergers, political movements and corporate turnarounds in modern economic history.
The objective of today’s CEO is survival; survival in terms of enterprise position. The CEO has to pick up the shattered remnants left behind by the lies and failures of elected officials and institutions. Today’s senior executive needs to be a congressman, judge, mayor and priest all rolled up into one. The livelihood of one’s employees/constituency depends on the expansion tactics, emotional stamina, intellectual foresight and willingness to enter into an economic cage brawl to protect the company, shareholders and employees that depend on the entity’s survival for monetary sustenance.
For the economically nave and entrepreneurial utopia seekers, this isn’t an article for you. Press that ‘X’ at the top right side of the computer screen and open up a new browser and go to the official Obama page where you’ll get the lies you need in order to feel like your corporate concepts actually have a place in reality.
When I go to political functions or functions that claim to have the who’s who in attendance I find it fascinating to stand back and watch people interact. Politicians and power CEOs always stick to surface conversations, upstarts converse while looking over the shoulder of their conversation partner waiting for the opportunity to dump them and move onto someone with more influence. I could watch this interaction for ours and speculate with friends where we believe the targets of our conversation to be in their professional and pedigree evolution.
Click on the TV and you’ll see them, faces like the Joker with ceramic smiles plastered onto their face. Using the name of Jesus and romantic concepts of fighting in wars and existing at deaths door while he fought for his country is the general MO of any politician. But what happens when we enter into the endless tunnels of the rabbit hole where these Jokers exist? Among the cobwebs, rotting carcasses filth is a den where they all congregate. Kissing babies and speaking at the Rotary Club are just strokes of makeup on the faces of these right snatching villains. The reality of how unqualified these professional politicians are should scare the tar out of all of us. Of course we are having issues with our monetary system, the people who are running our government’s finance divisions have a minimal background in the subject. Of course our men and women are dying abroad in wars that we don’t need to be in, the politicians don’t understand what it’s like to lose a child because their kid is in the National Guard on Cape Cod whale watching duty. It’s a joke.
As the global economy becomes more uncertain, entrepreneurs and CEOs are evaluating their fundraising strategies as traditional institutional lenders and government grants are become less available. For solid companies with profits there is a strong possibility of going public.
So is business a form of warfare? If it is who are the pawns and who are the kings? Let’s look at the facts and past the 1980s clichs that chant: Greed Is Good and Business Is War as those chanting these phrases are often on the sidelines and not gifted enough to be on the field and playing and have no choice but to live vicariously through those they are jealously watching.
IPOs and Taking Your Company Public: Why Do Public Companies Fail?
There are a few things that one needs to consider when strategizing to take a business public on a major exchange: corporate structure, the speed and efficiency at which the IPO is facilitated, the market creation post public with corporate publicity strategies and investor relations, relationships to secure ongoing financing and finally strategic growth through acquisition.
