MJ DeMarco
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The Commandment of Control is 1 of the 5 Fastlane Commandments.
It states:
I'd like this thread to represent a detailed list of CONTROL VIOLATIONS as they happen in the business world. I'd like to chronicle how businesses get screwed when they rely on ONE company for all their business, sales, or marketing.
See a control violation in the news? Post it here. Please post a link to the article or story that best demonstrates the violation.
A control violation would occur when a large corporation changes one of its policies, procedures, or algorithms, resulting in catastrophic damage to piggy-backed companies.
It states:
(Learn more about the Commandments: https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/community/pages/about/)As an entrepreneur, you want to control your business whereas no one entity can put you into bankruptcy. For example, will a Google algorithm change kill your business? Will that MLM company go out of business and destroy all you worked for? Will Facebook change its Terms of Service for application calls and all of sudden you're out of business? Did that great affiliate program you've been hocking suddenly stop paying? Or change it's terms and now your shit-out-of-luck? The Commandment of Control eliminates 3rd party risks that can take down your business in one swift stroke. You can either paint your own big picture, or be a swab of paint in someone elses.
I'd like this thread to represent a detailed list of CONTROL VIOLATIONS as they happen in the business world. I'd like to chronicle how businesses get screwed when they rely on ONE company for all their business, sales, or marketing.
See a control violation in the news? Post it here. Please post a link to the article or story that best demonstrates the violation.
A control violation would occur when a large corporation changes one of its policies, procedures, or algorithms, resulting in catastrophic damage to piggy-backed companies.
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