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Takeaway #200 on the enterprising journey with Xzibit

…Escalation, elevation to another plateau

Sometimes ya take a few steps back to mentally grow…

Xzibit f/ Jelly Roll ♦ Rollin’ 

Takeaway #200:  Career growth and company success is not always a linear path.  Your path may meander, but it could add value to your overall growth, depending on the direction.

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Takeaway #121: not a zero-sum game with Little Brother

***     Every flight that I leave, my wife and my seeds

I wish that I could be more involved, I leave it in destiny’s hands

Just because I’m on the road don’t make me less of a man

I spit it from the heart and I don’t care if other dudes are doing it

They said I should be more focused, now I’m moving units    ***

Little Brother f/ Supastition♦Doin’ Me

Takeaway 121:  Everybody is looking for the work and quality of life balance.  The reality is that it is not a zero-sum game.  You are one person, carry both worlds with you – it comes through.  The better executive shows glimpses of the rounded persona…it moves people and makes them want to move units.  Bring your full toolkit today.

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Takeaway #14: Institutional Investors + perfect knowledge inspired by #thelastpoets

***Now, Dow Jones owns the people’s homes

and all the surrounding land

Buying and selling their humble dwelling

in the name of the Master Plan***

The Last Poets  ♦  E Pluribus Unum

How can you talk Hip Hop or Rhythmic American Poetry without giving a head nod to the rapper predecessors Last Poets?  Modern Rhythmic poetry owes a big debt of gratitude to these brothers.  Here BPM is reminded that the market while moved by the occasional irrational exuberance of the common investor is more likely subject to the will of the institutional investor.  The hedge, mutual, and pension funds are making those monumental volume swings.  Don’t forget that.  The reality is that you have to keep tabs on what the big boys do because you do not have access to all the information that they do. 

In the perfectly elastic market, players have perfect knowledge.  Not in the real world.  You can be hooked up to a Bloomberg terminal or investor wire but not ever have all the information that you need.  Your little bundle is just a pittance in the big waves of the ocean.  And those waves are created by not just the ocean liners, but the moon as well.

 

BPM TAKEAWAY#14:

  • WATCH THE MOVES OF THE INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR

  • YOU MAY HAVE GOOD KNOWLEDGE, BUT NO ONE HAS PERFECT KNOWLEDGE

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Takeaway #221: Digital life inspired by #Pegz

***So romantic, I roamed the planet

With a mobile phone and global tracking

Showed you passion, no attachments

Follow the link and download the graphics

It’s a digital world, know the language

Online with the home advantage***

Pegz ♦ No Attachments

Takeaway #221:  Look it’s 24-7 because of digital, so play it to your advantage.  Get the profiles on your blackberry in sync.  Get the paper off your desk and PDF that.  Moreover, keep up on the terms of art and metrics, it will streamline your pathway to success

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Takeaway #95: Too $hort on Human Resources?

***Put some big money back in the game…

You wanna ball, you can’t tell him he ain’t

Cause if the music don’t pay he gon’ sell ’em the ‘caine

All the crack babies are growin up now

They got ADD, throw it up and act wild***

Too $hort & E-40 ♦  This My One

Takeaway 95:  Develop your Human Resources  (your personnel or human capital) or else be prepared for destructive behavior.  If you invest in your people, time, training, feedback, you receive assets.  If you do not, then the return is destructive behavior, poor morale, & poisonous deadweight.

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