Victorian gentility is a thing of the past. Modern competitors are unsparing in seeking your extinction. Young customers of today are loyal for only as long as it suits them. Business and stock investing are mired in a merciless jungle. How can you prepare to cut a swathe through the poisonous plants, deadly snakes, and assorted sources of threats to your estate?
Assemble a new set of Navy Seal skills. It could be a whole team if you have deep pockets or just a new side to your business-self: lean, determined, and capable of taking on nearly anything competitors may throw at you. Use this concept to build new sinews in to your stock portfolio. Orient your portfolio to companies that exhibit all of the following ‘R’s.
Rapid response: the Internet has no patience. A company must adapt in hours and days, where months were fine in the past.
Resource-rich: counterattacks require physical assets, knowledge, logistic support, and cash. Highly-leveraged corporations are vulnerable to disruptions.
Reserve capacity: the best new opportunities and gravest threats may come from new business lines. However, no company can afford to ignore current operations.
Rehearsal: a whole orchestra has to set in coordinated motion when a sudden business development occurs. Companies that do not rehearse for emergencies are likely to flounder when a business tsunami strikes.
Ruthlessness: commitments to the law and ethics must be accompanied by rigid determination to achieve business goals. Key employees should take pride in producing results in most trying circumstances.
It is evident that traditional financial measures are inappropriate for spotting tomorrow’s big winners in any stock exchange. Gear up now to a whole new way of building resilience in to your investment portfolio.
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