Cross hair - Million Dollar Baby

Have been fairly quiet for the past days......much has been said and done. So adding another sound ( sight ) byte for sound byte sake is not the way to go. .....so I took a step back, and volunteered to babysit four kids for a day. Takeway: learned a thing or two from these kids.

And here I am, searching for the missing ingredient. All have been said and done - we have articulated, communicated and so ....... let's just do it. That is what a grizzled boxing trainer says to his charge: "Always protect yourself." Eager-beaver Maggie replies "Yes, boss", in a Clint Eastwood's elegant, poignant Million Dollar Baby.
We have placed the issue under the cross-hair and we want to keep it within our sight.

Million Dollar Baby ignores his advice, suffers dearly for it and still finds a way to argue that "not protecting yourself" is the only way you can really live, horrific consequences be damned.1

It comes down to execution, and at this stage "protetcing yourself" means getting mavens, mavens, and mavens. This is singularly the most important factor for the business model. So do we listen to Frankie Dunn's hisses.

In making the movie, he has

..... boiled off every ounce of fat and only the essentials remain.......so quiet and unassuming .... feels like a whisper.... a model of unadorned precision--as plaintive, soulful and endlessly complicated in its direct simplicity...1

Well, when we analyse why a business model is not able to gain traction, usually it is the gap between the strategy and execution. We then need to strip it down to the basic components in order to cross-hair the problem. And it usually is a simple "protect yourself" task. So let's nail it with discipline and focus......


QED
quod erat demonstrandum
1.quoted from http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com