My Gripe Today

Anal Lists have their place.

For real, I don't hate them. They just want to create spreadsheets and graphs to find that magical SILVER BULLET to solve a company's problems.

ANALeyes the data to your heart's content - go for it, but not on my dime.

Basic business practices require time tried solutions.

                  Customer Focus/ Relationship
                                     Product/Service Solution
                                                           Margin Maximisation
                                                                                Value Chain
                                                                                                   Efficient & Effective Systems 
                                                                                                                         Competitive Advantage

Keep reports simple and to a minimum.
Keep meetings to a minimum or not at all.

If you do the hard work, the numbers will create its own narrative.

Yesterday, I was handed a SPREADSHIT to maintain and report so that the higher ups can have all the data to scrutinize and criticize - insert SIGH

I never wanted to be an ANAL LIST ... I just wanted to be active within the business.

Cause ANAL LIST's attract ANALEYESATION - they have a place, but are not the place.

To quote an ANALIST who was frustrated that all his graphs and such were not leading to improvements...
"I spend so much time creating reports and it is frustrating that there is no significant improvement"

My thoughts... we had no product to satisfy our customers ... it was corporate arrogance at the time.

IF you have a CUSTOMER BASE who can tell you WHAT THEY WANT, who are likely to INVEST in your R&D and PAY for what they want!!

It is there, right in front of your face, staring you in the eye... and here you are so disconnected from the customer, disconnected from reality... and you wonder why your MORE agile, MORE responsive and LESS resourced competitor is starting to KICK your BUTT!

But wait, hang on, let me get grilled for not getting that multi faceted, long winded, multiple refresh, extremely complex SpreadShit correct - which will not point to you the obvious limitations of being blinded by arrogance and planning your forecast from bottom up, that is, what you SHOULD MAKE in PROFIT, without looking at the FUNDAMENTALS of working hard to get there.

But I dare not say anything as the GROUP THINK would take my commentary as NEGATIVE.
No benefit to head down that road.

Say Positive things and act as BEWILDERED as the herd.

Not my merry go round. Not my rodeo.

Baby steps... Baby steps.

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