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I really can't decide if I love or hate having employees. Sometimes I wish I picked an online business I can do from anywhere that's easier to scale and want to sell this thing and get as far away from it as possible. Sometimes I'm glad I went the route I did.
Guess the grass is always greener. I'm sure I would have had frustrations with the other path.
I've certainly had my challenges with staffing, and grappled with wanting AI to replace everyone, to wanting to rebuild a strong team. It really comes down to leadership. It's a time to develop that, as entrepreneurs, having an idea, taking it to market, making profit is only the start of the game. If the business needs staff to scale, then thats a time to build out your leadership qualities, which has been the focus of my learning this year.
Yeah, I figured. Business sometimes feels like a ball and chain when you have to spend a whole day managing adults. Can't imagine how being an employee feels like.
That's exactly how I feel. I'm having to slowly focus more and more on leadership rather than doing the work. Feels like babysitting sometimes, but I try to see things from their perspective.
We all know the feeling.
One day you have an amazing person doing things so well, you wish you came up with those ideas. The next day you have someone who shouldn't even be on the team screwing things up.
The reality is that there are no businesses that scale well without employees. Tech businesses can only carry you so far (assuming you are a programmer to begin with) and then also need people.
There are 24 hours in a day. To get to 1,000 work hours - we hire people, many people.
The problem is this: every business starts the same way. Founder works in the business. With some small success, we should be moving out of working "in the business" and onto the next stage of CEO work - working on the business. That disassociation from doing the work to managing what gets done by others is hard. It's a new skill. It's a bit like moving from playing checkers to chess. The rules are different.
It is unavoidable if we want bigger things. And for years I've been saying this very thing on this forum. Employees are your greatest asset, if you are a great manager. Few of us are! I'll be first to admit it's the one area where I am still a novice. For so many years I've been working in the business, it's my default to "jump in" and solve problems myself. It's faster, it's better, it's often the only way... but it's also wrong if the goal is to scale. I am trying, failing at it more than I wish to admit...
The grass will be greener on our side but only when we take care of it the right way![]()
What are you guys doing to get better at this?What about an employee who's both? My operations manager is so phenomenal in so many ways until it gets to the part where he isn't lol. I do blame myself. I think I trained him to pass the big problems to me instead of showing him how to handle them himself. He's just not naturally wired to handle complex, uncertain situations.
I actually double majored in Data Science & AI, so I'm very comfortable with that and was allured by the SAAS-business nomad life.
Part of the reason I started a manufacturing business was I hated being stuck behind a screen all day. Now I'm stuck behind a screen all day answering emails and looking at spreadsheets. Guess from the entrepreneur's perspective we all end up in a similar positions regardless of the field.
Yeah I realize that. I'm very grateful to them the days when things are going well. And ultimately it's my lack of experience being a leader that is the source of the problem, not them.
I’m in an ecommerce specific coaching program at the moment and one of the big focuses is employees and systems
It’s good, I’m learning a lot and I’m sure I’ll get better at it
The training is mostly based on EOS which I think is the thing @Antifragile was looking at doing earlier in the year
Anyway, is there no thread on the subject of hiring and managing people? I feel like there should be
There’s the thread where Kak or antifragile were advocating for hiring and building real businesses
But I’m not sure if there’s a thread discussing how
The coach also recommended the book “the one minute manager meets the monkey”, I’m yet to read it but it looks short and I’m sure it’s good, everything else he’s suggested has been
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