Be ready to delegate. You can’t micromanage and be a successful person, because if you’re micromanaging, you aren’t doing what you need to be doing. You need to have, as a CEO, the big vision of the company — Where is the product going? Where is the distribution going? We have to look at the big picture. And if you’re micromanaging people on how they type their e-mails, you will never be able to succeed.
People that try [to micromanage] are either crazy or they’re just setting themselves up for failure. I never met an entrepreneur with a successful business that said that they could successfully micromanage — or even wanted to.
It’s also degrading to the employee to micromanage them because then you’re saying, ‘I have no confidence in you.’ If you don’t have confidence in an employee, then the employee shouldn’t be there.
Strive for success. You have to have stealthy resolve that you are not going to fail. I made up my mind that failure is not an option, because when I started the business, I needed the job. You’re even more motivated when it’s a must and not just an option. If it had been an option, there would have been about a thousand times in the very beginning that I would have quit.
But when you have bills to pay and other people’s lives at stake, their income at stake, you think long and hard every day about making it all work, because you’re responsible for yourself, but you’re also responsible for them in a big way.
It’s like your baby. It’s just not an option for it not to grow up strong and healthy and live a nice life. That’s what it feels like. There are a lot of big corporations that have lost any sense of humanity and they don’t care whether their people are working or not working. But when you’re a small business owner, there’s a much greater sense of responsibility to the people that work for you.
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