Kansas City Royals: Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?

How would these rules translate into success?

To start, one mistake Walmart had made was a lack of investing into the on-line markets early in the dot com era (1997-2003). Brian McCullough wrote, “…in 2000, there were only 400 million people online world wide” and “in the year 2000, there were approximately 17 million websites. By 2010, there were an estimated 200 million.”

One can clearly see that Walmart was not too concerned with 400 million online people. But that would quickly change with more and more people getting online. Now, Walmart’s chief competitor is Amazon, which is almost exclusively an online company.

With this in mind, Glass would take the growing pains he took on in the early 2000s Royals teams and look for a leader whose strategies would resemble the strategies that were pressed onto him.

Enter Dayton Moore and his plan to grow Kansas City into a competitor.

Moore’s plan was simple. He wanted to use Glass’s resources to build a farm system loaded with athletic team players that would grow together and win.