Monthly Archives: March 2013

I’ve been following your blog for close to a year and this is my favorite post. Glad you decided to re-run it because I missed it the first time around.

Last year our production manager had a verbal blow out as he felt our goals were too difficult to achieve. I gave him three paid days off and he had a vacation after that. He decided to move on (much to my relief and financial relief). I now have two assistant production managers who have easily met our goals. they accomplished their goals because they did not know “it could not be done”. It is amazing what can be accomplished when we do not know what the limits of ingenuity are.

I think you are on track. I know I have toyed with the idea of owning my own business, but realized years ago that I do not have the risk tolerance or the burning need (i.e. I just lost my job and need to eat). Entrepreneurs fulfill a key role, but they often get to a point where they need the skills of “corporate” people. They need each other.

I think self-employed people realise the world is their oyster, they are no longer sheep…they feel they can achieve whatever they desire…but yes and a big yes, they need to foresight to pick up the pieces when things go wrong or be quick enough to STOP and change what they are doing to make it work.
Im from a working class background so the only thing we have is our tenacity and will to resolve.