Consider this. You run a business. It is the wealthiest entity in its field. It is equally the most successful business (without cheating unlike its competitor), over the long term. It has one of the biggest, if not the biggest, client bases in its field. Amongst your Senior staff you have the best CEO in the business and an experienced businessman, hard headed Chairman who will NOT brook mediocrity. Your long serving Senior Manager is the most successful in his field and has NOW marvellous support staff, and after 2 unusually lean years, the Business has a business plan going forward in place, to retrieve unexpected lost ground caused by hubris, made at extensive cost in the latter half of 2006.
Your middle management consists of 9 Top Professionals who have climbed Everest and reached the pinnacle, several multiple times. 11 although not having quite reached Everest, have performed on the "2nd season" stage many times. The balance of your Junior Staff, Trainees and recently acquired apprentices have excellent references.
Resources, back office, and facilities are not an issue.
In your previous season whilst only closing 3 major contracts, you missed out on 13 other major contracts due to the unavailibility of Senior Middle Management Staff due to reasons beyond the Business' control, by the proverbial bees dick.
The internal contributing factors to this unacceptible performance to the Share Holders, was addressed by the aforesaid recent review. Externally, the business can expect 5 exceptionally hard contracts that need to be closed in 2007 but still have 17 contracts that could be closed on home turf. 13 Contracts should guarantee a second season.
As always, external factors can have an affect on the business' success such as the referred to unavailiability of key staff at crucial times, an affliction that hasn't occurred in the camps of several over rated competitors in recent years, that surely must change as all business is cyclical. Surely this business, is well overdue for some slices of "luck" in this, the most intangible aspect on the performance of our business.
Doomsayers are invited to sell their shares in the Company and spend their return on a European holiday. Shareholders with a long term view will be rewarded.
As Mark Twain once remarked "rumours of my (our) demise have been exaggerated."
