The Business Bulletin
Living on the frontier I’ve been running small businesses now for over 20 years – both my own and other people’s. And two things have struck me in that time…
One is that if you’ve never run a small business, then please don’t try and tell people who do, how to do it.
don’t know what to do for the best! When it goes well you can sleep at
thrilling, energising and rewarding. The other thing is, it’s easy to
night, buy extra gifts for your children,
think a lot of the leadership and
whatever. And when it goes wrong,
management and business books
you’re really not sure who is in control.
you lose everything. There is no
aren’t for you. They’re for big
One minute you’re so busy you don’t
redundancy pay, sometimes no sick
businesses. And often they are. But
know what to do first and the next
pay either depending on how small
we are a small business and we’ve
everything has gone so quiet you
your business is. Despite that, it’s
just had our first book published and
I say it’s akin to riding a tiger –
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