{"id":2717,"date":"2009-11-23T18:39:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T22:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=2717"},"modified":"2009-11-23T18:39:46","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T22:39:46","slug":"big-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/big-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My common fault of public companies is that the focus shifts to the next quarter, the next dividend, keeping stockholders happy. \u00a0And so they should.<\/p>\n<p>Yet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What is the bigger picture? What are you working towards? A little less in shareholders hands this year could be magnitudes times more in five years.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s these big picture perspectives and long term plays that really pay off. \u00a0Bill Gates was for years saying Microsofts aim was to get a PC in every household. \u00a0Now that is virtually true.<\/p>\n<p>If they had focused on the short term, forgetting the big picture, they would have ended up with mediocre results.<\/p>\n<p>Great companies think big for the long term.<\/p>\n<p>(And your Marketing should reflect that).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My common fault of public companies is that the focus shifts to the next quarter, the next dividend, keeping stockholders happy. \u00a0And so they should. Yet&#8230; What is the bigger picture? What are you working towards? A little less in shareholders hands this year could be magnitudes times more in five years. It&#8217;s these big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[133,725,747,1134,1135],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}