{"id":23586,"date":"2024-02-07T08:59:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T12:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=23586"},"modified":"2024-02-08T23:58:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T03:58:35","slug":"money-making-is-a-competitive-endeavor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/money-making-is-a-competitive-endeavor\/","title":{"rendered":"Money making is a competitive endeavor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you believe in keeping a running tally on value You Inc. provides, then you get how money works. No one cares that we went to Stanford Engineering school. All anyone cares about is their own corporate financial standing <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All any one cares about is their own finances and financial score and money standing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People soft-pedal their problems. Most managers are not transparent with the problems we are attacking.There are two main problems, real problems and perceived problems. Our goal is to hear a procedure problem and drill down to the real problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-2- Setting a dollar value associated to the real problem<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So if the real problem costs Y dollars our goal is to charge X percent of why where X is 0% two whatever X percent is X and \u201cY\u201d are not correlated<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>X and Y are negotiated<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-3- Rent Seeking behavior <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rent seeking behavior is not problem-solving paragraph rent seeking behavior is standing next to greatness, hoping to kiss butt and collect a rent check<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-4- no \u201cpie in the sky\u201c Hail Mary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the clich\u00e9, \u201csolution-looking-for-a-problem\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/img_8507.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/img_8507.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/img_8507-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/img_8507-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/img_8507-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/img_8507-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image15-1-rotated.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image15-1-rotated.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image15-1-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you believe in keeping a running tally on value You Inc. provides, then you get how money works. No one cares that we went to Stanford Engineering school. All anyone cares about is their own corporate financial standing All any one cares about is their own finances and financial score and money standing People [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanford-engineering"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23613,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23586\/revisions\/23613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}