How to Manage When You Hate to Manage
Soon after I started working for myself, a mentor told me to read The E-Myth Revisited*. It turned out to be game changing for me, mainly in helping me transition from being an employee and into embracing the three business personalities I would need to be...Virtues of Laziness: Confessions of a Reformed Worker Bee
Like many of us, I grew up with the virtue of hard work extolled endlessly in a never-ending refrain. I come from an immigrant family so the classic narrative of starting from nothing and toiling away in order to claw one’s way up the ladder of success is practically...Why It’s Unreasonable to Expect Perfect Work
Namiera asked: Some of my friends pay $25/hour for their VAs. I pay $55. And because I pay so much, I expect perfection from her; zero mistakes. She says it’s unreasonable of me to expect that. What do you think? With the greatest of respect intended, you pay for many...
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