I'll throw my hat in, not worrying about titles, except for clarity and consistency. I recommend you would draw out an organizational chart with core function bullets underneath.
- CEO: Lead: visionary, investment community face, organization voice
- CFO: Finance budgets, spending, takes care of bottom line, manages growth, HR
- Operations: Execute, Implementation, Customer Service, Customer Retention
- Marketing: Communicate, SEO/SMO, web, Social Media, Business Development/Sales, Customer attention
- Technical: Create, Design, Engineering, Developers
Not all have to be "employees". There is a lot of talented people that will work on contract. What is important is based on the strength of the product developed, will determine how many people it would take to:
p.s. Replace "product" with service, idea, etc. The basics apply to most offerings.
- launch the product, (Technical, Vision, Costs, Communicate)
- maintain the product (Operations, Technical, Financial)
- promote the product (CEO, Marketing, Business Development, SEO/SMO, Events)
- manage the product (Operations, Technical, Financial, Customer Service, Education/Training)
- keep the product going (Technical, Operations, Financial, Education/Training)
- grow the product (CEO, Marketing, Business Development, SEO/SMO Technical, Operations, Financial)
More times than not, key functions are typically shared by individuals, for example:
- CEO: How it looks: Vision, Marketing, Product Development, Communication
- CFO: How it gets done: Financials, Operations, HR,
- CTO: How it works: Product Creation, Product Development, Engineer, Design
There are numerous examples of successful launches and organizations that start out with only two key people that work jointly that branches from there:
- FACE of the organization (CEO, Marketing, Design, etc.)
- BRAINS of the organization (CFO, Developer, Design, Financial, Operations, Engineer)
I even amazed myself ... reading this almost a year later. Really crowning the website I did launch over a year ago [ www.graFX.online ] and left stagnant less the original gusto that comes when an idea bursts forward and fights to find solid ground. A central repository of all my blogs, depending open my knowledge (typically business, sales or social media as @optioneerJM and its affiliate blogspot blog of the same name all under the social media persona I created in and around 2008 when a champion friend, mentor and cheerleader, Donna deMan pushed me off the cliff into the stratosphere online, starting on Linked In, then branching out to TWITTER where I was so thankfully introduced to a group of early adopters of social media with a lot of class, talent, skill and some sort of charm or charisma that people became drawn to: those are still the forefathers. Maybe I'll do a blog and ask people who I think impacted and guided me about remembering me (if) or what they remember most about me .... that would be fun {INSERT} imaginary virtual assistant who hussles off an email to me to serve as a reminder and then adds it to her notes to cover during our weekly phone call [not to mention quarterly luncheon to touch base personally and address anything more sensitive, needing more personal attention than day to day "STUFF".
Well, I dreamed of writing and wishing about eventually being able to be paid for what I do, and I'm happy to say I like the direction this is going. An assembly of blogs from an average, yet bright, confident yet sensitive business lady with a twist of this whirlpool of stuff may have some value. Putting it under one umbrella: www.graFX.online allows me to give it all under one setting.
It is a hobby though. Not an occupation, more like a preoccupation or passion that would be more inline with who I am, not who others want me to be or think they know me to be. An honest reflection under one transparent crystal chandelier of my life.
I think I really like the sweet spot that I may have found in THE PUBLISHER: creative writings that would otherwise a) be lost after it was a fleeting idea or b) be stifled because they wouldn't land softly in the more tumultuous life I lead only a year later from when this blog was written.
I like to think I sounded optimistic and embracing the age on the farther side of 50 and coasting towards 60, amid big waves and whitecaps hitting us at this moment when everything is suppose to be rosy.
After witnessing my own parents marriage of more than 50 years of togetherness [and other times of hellishness] and ending up with a partner in life, legally professed as husband, a father to one and a stepfather to a few, ending up after one failed marriage attempt renewed with optimism when we vowed to create a family among all four, equally treated with fairness. Fast forward 11 years later: it lived more like a mythical horror epic in the last 9 weeks. We all discovered that Rob was a big piece of the glue that made us all stick. And that is a beautiful thing.
Isn't life suppose to teach the parent a lesson so that they are able to head off their offspring to the same crumbling fait?
I say potatoe, you sound like potata.
I roll my eyes and you purse your lips, when you want to emphasize your point.
A very wise man (my father) often asked: "What's the payoff?"
With my dad, that was the clue we were to shut up and really reflect on the question and be very sure from the curl in our toes before we would dare speak up! Never mind answer the question.
Well, dad. Rob was the pay off!
I never quite knew the answer when it came to Rob and you'd ask me those 12 or 13 years ago. His daughter would be double the age now from when we first met. Definitely, because of my dad, I had to have really opened my eyes into what I was getting myself into.
Fear: that's natural,
so many would say ... even today
as a daughter embarks on a marriage
I hope her father will be asking her
from the beginning, these wise WISE
words:
WHAT'S THE PAYOFF?
While I become weary of family dynamics that are far worse than I could imagine for myself now, nor anyone I know.
Try being the legally married spouse to a man whom I adore, and my one great love [that's the easy part].
Try that man's life probably saved because she was there, acted quickly upon by his spouse, in every form imaginable. When speaking to the Chief Resident on the neurological team, who asked me to call him by his first name [ undisclosed to secure privacy ]. I was asking him a few questions, or many as I am oft to do, whether genetics, health of the patient or whatever is the main reason for Rob's remarkable recover?
Kind Chief Doctor Resident said that the quickness to reaction and the outstanding diagnosis of The South Campus, was likely a highly contributing factor to his amazing recovery.
What's the PAYOFF in keeping me around?
For someone who is often considered arrogant or cocky, as you can imagine, the list may be very sparse.
To that I say:
I am not perfect
... it is not something i could promise now or even from our beginning
Sometimes I talk too much
... with only the kindest and heartfelt intensions
I don't like what you say
.... not because it is true is it?
If you like what I say
.... or do or buy or compliment anything and everything to do with you.
REMEMBER: I like to keep my promises
... which was a shortcoming of your father who just wanted to make you happy
If you asked your dad to take you to the moon, he would have
... and that was one of his most redeeming qualities: how he treated you!
Your dad wanted to give you a family
... I was part of the package. A mother figure is important to every girl's lives.
Perhaps by now you are stunned to discover there is no ranting or raving
.... why so? Unless I feel beaten or put in my place?
The one important quality I share with you
... because I was once someone's "Daddy's Girl" who passed on 10 years ago
I lost my father, there is never an opportune time
... so maybe, just maybe, I can actually understand what you are going though.
EXCEPT, my father is gone ..... AND your father is healing.
... you know how he thinks you treat me, just be who that means.
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| words i try to live by |
