You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)

Re:You weren't meant to have a boss (2008) by edoceo on Saturday October 10, 2020 @05:47PM (#24742111)

I have this for my small business. About 450 small "bosses" (clients). Because we don't answer to investors or board or anything we have what I call "alignment" with our clients.

Despite 400+ opinions, the pull on the team is one way: client needs.

My previous Companies has outside money, board, etc. That's three directions of pull.

We've saved a lot of time that way on investor management but our growth was limited by cash-on-hand.

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Re:You weren't meant to have a boss (2008) by Rebelgecko on Saturday October 10, 2020 @08:23PM (#24742934)

Have you ever needed to fire a client? Or been in a situation where you have to juggle client needs that were non-compatible?

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Re:You weren't meant to have a boss (2008) by edoceo on Sunday October 11, 2020 @02:12AM (#24744080)

Fire client: less than 2%. But looks, losing only 2% to focus on the other 98. Well, you'll grow back.

Not-Compatoble request is a bit harder. But, with like 10+ prior years in consultant I'm generally able to direct thing to a multiple compatible solution.

Lots of research and customer development play for that.

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