If my family were a corporation, I would be the President & CEO, and my wife would be the CFO and CMO (chief mother). It's easy to run a  business (family) when there are just two of you. We hired an employee a year ago who had very little on her resume (breathing, sleeping, eating, etc...), but she is our most cherished person in the company. Then things happened so fast that we had no choice but to bring in a second employee - who starts Friday (or earlier if she can get out of her current situation). This one too is very young and actually has nothing on her resume other than a pulse and some practice kicking.

     We are growing so fast as a company and we signed these two employees to life-long contracts. Are we ready? We don't want to be another AIG and none of us have golden parachutes - nor would we ever think of using them if we did. We do have a business model that we try to emulate and that model is unequivocally fool-proof. We will succeed if we follow the model, but it can so often be hard to follow and sometimes confusing as to which avenue to take. Fortunately we have other corporations that are in the same business that we can call on for help. We are in no way competitors and often work together as coalitions for further success, but imagine being a CEO and then asking another company for help. It can be hard sometimes. For now, though, I am going to stick with the parts that you tell to the stockholders.

     It is incredible having success in life. Our company is growing and I know both the CMO and I have no doubts we have and will have the best employees our corporation could ever hire. No matter how little experience they have, we know that we can build their resumes. They will learn the business and how to run one of their own someday. Yet they will never leave this company as we will make it a great investment for them. We will share with them our business model and we will give them all the profit and all the shares that we do not need to survive.

The executives of any company do need their own profit and their own shares. The employees need to know that everyone is well taken care of and also that the President & CEO will never leave....

That he is fully committed to this corporation; that he doesn't need a parachute; that he does not want to resign and work elsewhere; that he has his whole life invested in this business model and this business; that he has faith in his employees; that he believes in their future; that he feels fully secure in his choice of CFO & CMO; that he believes in this company; that he is here until the end; and that most importantly - he sees this corporation as his family and that he loves them all very very much.

 


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