http://www.authentic-alternatives.com/blog/management/your-employees-are-not-your-friends/ Helping You Build Your Sustainable Small Business Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:21:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.authentic-alternatives.com/blog/management/your-employees-are-not-your-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-1096 Bonnie Willow Fri, 07 May 2010 13:02:59 +0000 http://www.authentic-alternatives.com/blog/?p=132#comment-1096 Over the seven years that I owned and ran a gallery, I experienced this very personally. I started out hiring friends and/or trying to make friends out of everyone I hired. That was disastrous, as they never had the business focus I had. In order to get the work done well and properly, I had to be a boss, not a friend. It took me years to learn that. It was hugely important on a personal level as well as the business level. Over the seven years that I owned and ran a gallery, I experienced this very personally. I started out hiring friends and/or trying to make friends out of everyone I hired. That was disastrous, as they never had the business focus I had. In order to get the work done well and properly, I had to be a boss, not a friend. It took me years to learn that. It was hugely important on a personal level as well as the business level.

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