Today was a bit of a challenging day for me. I was looking around the SilverDevotion site (on a technical level) – and I really, really wanted to jump in and start working hands on –on getting the site up and performing. I did take some actions BUT at the same time,...
I was thinking last night about:
1. expansion cycle
2. how would I effectively spent $5MM to gain speed
3. growth risks.
Through all this thinking, the big conclusion that I keep coming back to, is that Finance is now biggest obstacle. In particular, ...
Didn’t get an awful lot done today. Alex was sick, so I picked her up and took her home. While she was at home, caught up on operational emails, few small projects. In the evening, I did the the test ‘strengthfinder.com” which I”m planning to give out to the team...
Today was a very operational day. Didn’t accomplish much strategic planning – but just operational issues. Arranged for a follow up interview with a potential CFO, met with the IT team regarding current week. Re-arranged the org structure with Mina, and picked an...
Over last couple months, directly or indirectly, I have tried to motivate a few people to achieve their goals. I did that with the great people I met in Thailand – and pushed them to go after what they want. So far, they have stayed on the path.
I have also pushed a couple...
Had a great evening last night at an EO event, where we have a presentation on TopGrading – hiring the best people. The presentation itself was good, but nothing that I have not heard before – nevertheless good reminder. What WAS very interesting was the discussion and the social afterwards. ...
Today was quite a strategic day. The focus was on two things:
Basically, we have looked at moving the existing ecommerce platform forward...
I spent a good part of the day working the financials. First, working hands on financial transactions – and then secondly looking at the long term issues –cash flow, etc. It has been close to a month that I have been doing this ‘hands on’ and I’m getting a very good...
In the past, especially when it came to employees disputes, it had become easier to pay off the employees for the issues to go away. Another words, the effort to deal with a troublesome employee was more than handing over a little pile of money. So, business logic dictated at that time,...
Today we had finally! completed our long term vision – to have an integrated inventory/manufacturing system that would be automatically linked to our order processing system. Technically speaking, what the goal was for the inventory system to automatically adjust the inventory level counts...
