Thread: Team Continuity
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Re: Team Continuity

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Originally Posted by Chris Fultz View Post
One of the keys to sustainability, for a business, a team, any organization, it to continually evaluate the things that could go wrong and manage the ones that you can. Taking some time to evaluate your team and the circumstances around your organization could help you remain a viable team in the future.
I've been saying this for a while. We run a $35,000-$70,000 per year business with $10,000-$30,000 worth of capital equipment in tools and another $5,000 to $20,000 in parts. So you should think like you have a $50,000 to $120,000 company to run. FIRST does a lot to promote business like activities (you can get an award for having and executing a business plan, in the real world that just gets you a chance to keep your business running another month).

We are all in tight business times, real world and FIRST robot world. As Chris says, time to evaluate, plan and execute.
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