CHAPTER 15CREATING AND SUSTAINING YOUR ENDEAVOR

CATHEDRALS LAST FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS

LOGISTICAL, FINANCIAL, LEGAL, UNUSUAL

To run your business smoothly you need to routinize the normal. That means you have to get into a groove about and with issues that surface regularly and require attention periodically.

Here are my suggestions for the actual administration of your business so that you can run it alone, with outsourced help as needed but without any employees, full- or part-time. Employees can kill your business. They require paychecks no matter what your cash flow, benefits, sick days, personal days, help with issues they can’t handle, monitoring to ensure quality and honesty, and tolerance when they are obviously goofing off—on your dollar. ...

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