The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
I really don't have much respect for the people who live their lives motivated by an exit strategy existing, being performed. There was no option that we were trained in that says, 'If it gets too hard, get up and leave.'
An exit is only a success if you set an exit as your primary goal. My primary goal was to build a globally influential tool, to build something from the ground up that could literally change how we communicated in business and individually.
There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
We need to have a better balance between a deliberate strategy and staying open. Because in the end, most of us end up being successful in a career that we never imagined we would be in at the beginning.
My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me.
Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented.
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
If you can't define a winning exit strategy for the American people, where we somehow come out ahead, then we're wasting our money, and we're wasting our strategic resources.