Focus Firm: Grand Finale

We met in the hotel lobby at 8AM, just five hours after getting in. Dressed in dark suits, white shirts and red ties we grabbed some caffeine and headed over to DISH’s Englewood, Colorado headquarters for our final presentation.

After being reintroduced to some of the HR people we’d originally met at Baylor, our group was given a quick tour of the 2000 person facility then taken to an on-site film studio where we spent the next two hours capturing the essence of focus firm on camera.*

When that was done, DISH bought us lunch, we practiced for an hour, gathered our courage, and made our presentation to a room of marketing people and executives including Candy and Charlie Ergen.

In the end, after giving us two hours of his time, Mr. Ergen gave us the biggest compliment a CEO can give by offering each of us full-time positions in the division of our choice. We must have done something right.

*More on the video in a later post after I receive the final edit.