asset lite and a core

Jeff Skilling at Enron pushed for an 'asset light' concept for the company. While Enron ended up creating a new definition for "go big or go home", innovations that the company was responsible for and still in use today are not credited to the company. It's amazing to think that Enron was selected for six years in a row as the 'most innovative company' in the world by Fortune Magazine. I think the asset light theory truly is/was innovative, as long as it had a 'liability lite' side as well.

I think true happiness and freedom comes from not buying and identifying with the expensive house, the car, or the iphone...as my grandmother used to say, "Keep your Assets light, and your Dreams in sight."

In a totally different mode...i've joked that we need a peace corps type unit within the military which consists more of police and social enablers to go into Iraq...John Edwards has received some out of context 'slams' for his bumper sticker comment but his ideas seem very sound, which includes a 'Marshall Corps'....Read for yourself...