Dan Snyder: WP: Formula for Success Article

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Originally Posted by Buffalo Bob

The difference is your average business owner starts or buys a business where he or she possesses some or complete knowledge of how the business needs to function. A person buying an NFL team is going in 100% blind. The successful owners have been the ones lucky enough to hire the right people and step back. With the new slotted salaries for rookies teams that have the best drafts are going to be at a big advantage, talent scouts are going to be as important as the coaching staff. Plugging holes with high priced free agents will be a road to ruin.

This is a great way to put it. Excellent post.

I cringe everytime i hear commercials touting a place as being successful because it's been around a long time. That does not define success. Nothing is farther from the truth. An owner with deep pockets, etc., a place can survive generations and still be bleeding out cash year by year.

Snyder isn't going broke anytime soon. There's nothing stopping him from ruining the skins to beyond repair in that time. He has, whether knowingly or not, cultivated a poisonous atmosphere that is in no way conducive to success. Lots of folks, myself included, feel that the team will never have a fair chance until Snyder is gone and somebody competent owns the team. A successful organization, which is NOT the same thing as being around for a long time, has became successful because the person in charge knows about the business and knows what it takes to succeed.

99% of your huge companies out there right now have owners in place that are hands off. they know next to nothing about how to run the company because thats why they have auditors and professional staff. I hate to cite reality TV, but if Undercover boss has shown me anything, most of the owners really don't have a freaking clue about day to day operation. For the most part they are good people that just want to do the right thing, but really have no knowledge about their product or the procedure behind any given thing that is done or why.....

The other 1% or small businesses where the owner puts in lots of work, runs the whole company, etc....