Cluelessness is killing the cash cow
Cluelessness is killing the cash cow
Good balance of work/life values; generous benefits; financially stable.
Microscopic perspective on product development; little or no coordination across product teams; brittle, inflexible technology platform; intellectual ghetto in product management, design, and development; fat, bloated organization, overheavy with non-productive middle management; no coherent division of responsibility; all tactics / no strategy.
Don't kill the cash cow when you decide to reinvent the company. That slow-growing but reliable cash flow may turn out to be useful someday as you try to reinvent the business.
Let a thousand flowers bloom. Become a market of markets. Offer a wide variety of formats, from auction and fixed-price retail to trade, barter, wholesale, etc. Don't try to force sellers into any preferred format, but let them choose the best format for the merchandise they're trying to sell.
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