PhilWright
Joined 16 years ago
Joined 16 years ago
Sell the developer on the chance for career growth as the company grows.
Sell the developer on the fast paced environment without all the meetings and bureaucracy of larger companies.
Sell the developer on the chance to work broadly across many projects and not be stuck doing the same specialism all the time.
Sell the developer on being a big fish in a small pond and not just another numbered resource.
Your selling the culture and environment.
Maybe the issue that is that we cannot work out the theory, the equations that correctly describe it all properly. Maybe dark energy and dark matter and not actually 'other stuff' but just an indication that there are errors in our theories. Fix the theory and the 'other stuff' disappears. Quantum physics and General Relativity need to be combined at some point and doing so may resolve everything! Or it could simply be that human intelligence is not capable of finding the solution. In the same way a dog is never going to understand calculus, maybe you need an IQ of 1,000 or 10,000 to solve physics.
It also does not mention that the latest calculations on the flatness of the Universe make it flat with a 0.4% error bar. That means it is either flat, and so infinite, or very close to flat. In the close to flat scenario it would not be infinite but still very very very stupidly large.
What is the alternative, focus on not providing value to your customers? Yeah, I would go with the initial idea and given them something of value.
Despite all the promises, in practice they are super expensive and take forever to build. The UK is currently building a new reactor at Hinkley Point. The total cost keeps going up with the latest estimate at £22bn. The UK government has to provide a guaranteed minimum price for the electricity it generates to ensure investors put money into the project. So every UK household will be paying more for power for 35 years because of just this one reactor. Not to mention the project started in 2008 and is expected to actually generate power in 2025. And this ignores the cost of decommissioning the reactor at the end of its life.
Every generation of reactor is going to be so much cheaper! And yet they never are. Not in the UK anyway.
That makes WeWork about 1/11000th of the economy and so about 0.0091% of the economy.
A person designs a machine gun but does not pull the actual trigger. There is an army officer that orders the weapon be deployed and the rules of engagement for when it can be used.
A person designs a killer robot but does not activate it. There is an army officer that orders the weapon be deployed and the rules of engagement for when it can be used.
There is always a person that is responsible for the use of a munition. Maybe that person is higher up the chain with a killer robot than a machine gun. If you want to launch a nuclear bomb then it goes all the way to the top of the chain. But there is always a person that is responsible for the death caused by the munition.
An MBA will not suddenly give you more ideas on strategy. It will help fill in gaps in your knowledge about other areas of business. But they rarely actually teach you how to come up with a better/superior strategy.