Welcome to the Awesome guest blog series! Our first guest post is by Avital Ungar, owner of the incredibly popular Avital Food Tours in San Francisco, California.
I started my company to be able to do what I love full time: eat and travel. Yet I had become a slave to my business.
Topics: Being an Entrepreneur, Travel
Scaling, or growing rapidly, is a high priority for many startups and established companies. Every element of scale can be tricky, but today we're going to focus on the human element of scale.
Humans can be pesky, inconsistent, confusing, and often baffling creatures. As entrepreneurs, we at times love them, fear them, and occasionally wish we could ignore them. But no company can exist without them (sorry, robot armies) and no company can scale without focusing on them.
Topics: Managing People, Being an Entrepreneur
“We screwed up my biggest account. What should I do?!”
Sarah, one of my younger employees came to me early one Thursday morning in a panic. I had to quickly decide how to react. Should I micromanage, decide for her, or risk losing everything?
Big picture, how can you train your team to handle the infinite number of problems that can emerge every day? The answer is simple: You can’t.
Topics: Managing People, Communicating, Being an Entrepreneur
