Defining your End State and your COE - Keys to your Strategy
Sunday, January 13
So you know you are getting older when your body aches after changing the oil on your truck! I got slower at it too! This being said, I failed to properly identify my Current Operational Environment (COE) before I started the task and this cost me time and money. Time in that I had to make three...
Strategic Planning - part 2, key definitions to understand how I think
Sunday, January 06
So I was thinking, “a dangerous past time I know…” some will get this reference other’s won’t. Anyway, back to my thoughts, machinations or schizophrenic apparitions. After I wrote the last blog entry it occurred to me that flipping, wholesaling etc. could be considered a strategy based on the co...
Strategic Planning...There is more than meets the eye
Wednesday, January 02
A quote widely attributed to a German officer during WW II stated, “One of the serious problems in planning the fight against American doctrine is that the Americans do not read their manuals, nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine.” Back during this time a lot of changes were o...
In the beginning...Or, How I Got into Real Estate Investing
Wednesday, December 19
I’ve always wanted to get involved in real estate investing, I watched the late night infomercials growing up but never did anything about it. Granted, I was relatively young and there was another calling that was stronger and consumed my life for 30+ years. At the tender age of 17 I joined the H...