LAW: Excerpt from the book
48 Laws Of Architectural Consulting
KEEP WORKING EVEN WHEN YOU HAVE
EMPLOYEES
Don’t hire
staff to replace you, hire people to help you keep being great at what YOU do.
As is very common with every business owner or
professional practitioner, the moment they find someone who can stand
in for them at work, they become lazy and start skipping their own CEO duties. The
tendency to become slack with tasks that they ordinarily would have attended to
keenly sets in and this is a natural human feeling often fueled by the belief
that they (employees) are being paid to do ‘the work’ therefore we don’t have to do anything, any more. 