Stock Investment Goal Management in a Changing Business Environment

Duration distinguishes strategy from tactics in business.

It also separates higher echelons of management from entry-level employees in a business. Your time horizon must extend further in to the distant future as your career progresses.

A retail stock investor is a one-person army. You have to craft strategy and shift tactics as well.

Our concern in this post relates to crafting strategy rather than with tactics of short term stock market operations.

Earlier posts on this web log have dwelt on Goals set after an Environment Scan.

We need triggers to prompt reviews of Goals before we can deliberate on business strategy.

This is best done by making assumptions explicit.

Assumptions relate to uncontrollable elements in the macro environment. They may change at any time, and make our strategies worthless.

A particular strategy is appropriate for a set of assumptions. The best strategies will remain relevant in new conditions. However, a smart stock investor will review matters in any case, whenever assumptions prove to be untrue.

Stating assumptions is an art. We have to reach deep in to our minds. Your help will be invaluable at this point. Let us put heads together and draft assumptions for the world stock market scene of June 2008.

Please post your assumptions below or send an email to

StockWay.MyView@gmail.com

There will be a started list of assumptions here tomorrow.

This web log is updated every 24 hours.

Please visit us often, and bring friends along as well.

Rest well before the turmoil of the stock market week starting Monday June 02 2008.