RULE 10
Your time is everyone’s time
I used to work for a guy who had a small company, very successful, very dynamic. The kind of company that gained an advantage from being able to make decisions faster than the big lumbering competitors in the market. Consequently his business grew rapidly, and by the time I started working for him, there were about 40 of us in the company. I stayed around a year, by which time there were 60. And the business was grinding along so slowly it had lost its advantage entirely. So what happened?
The owner had made a very easy but critical mistake – he hadn’t changed his management style as his organization grew. He was still managing it just as he had when it started. Listen, when you have half a dozen employees ...
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