Now that pessimism prevails, the executive will abandon the project.

Managing it?

Partner.

They were partners?

What we used to believe for strategy is that you start any company with an operating plan and a financial model.

Management skills poor.

Danny runs the laser tag.

I'm a management consultant.

I did what people from my kind of background were supposed to do.

It's astonishing.

Acumen's been working with ABE for the past year, year and a half, both on looking at a new business plan, and what does expansion look like, helping with management support and helping to do term sheets and raise capital.

And the United States up there is getting for longer life, keeping family size.

I have a great many responsibilities now.

He gave up the plan for economic reasons.

As far as my experience goes, such a plan is impossible.

That requires a different algorithm than A star. It happens to be a more computation involved algorithm.

We also learned about planning in particular, breadth first planning,

We needed a man with experience to run things, but... to run things, but...

He is the manager of a hotel.

Also a really interesting company is Gore Tex.

He doesn't need it to operate.

Clean night table, compliments of the management.

And they model the company.

Then you married your father's business partner?

I don't suppose this kid cares about our budget crisis.

he offered to make me a partner.

Their ceo is in police custody.

You let me perform? I'll talk to the owner ... Owner says...yes.

Plan

Which is?

This was an executive decision.

My father runs a restaurant.

That is a well managed company.

Who runs the show?

And that's including the two dogs and my little Siamese cat. Thank you.

But the thing that really makes the gang seem like McDonald's is its franchisees.

My father had a glove factory.

You sure about this beauty parlor thing?

He runs the tables over to the Triple Ace Club.

Maybe. Or maybe I run a store at the mall.

I know of him.

We met the proprietor.

A defensive CEO was a tough start for the new season.

This is Don Michaels. He runs the feedlot.

This class is going to teach you all the skills about strategy and process and organization and eventually if you build a successful company, we'll then allow you to write the plans and operating documents and financial spreadsheets to actually execute the company.