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Originally Posted by milambur
My main problem has always been that I strive for perfectionism in my work. It makes it difficult to hire and lead people because you always focus on the flaws. It also makes it very hard to accept that good enough is when things should hit the market, not when they are perfect. Getting over these issues is what is holding many people back and often is what they should be focusing on solving to be successful entrepreneurs.
A high achiever can probably do things better than most people, but even if you can do something twice as good as somebody else, you have limited time available. Hiring people and proper work division is essential to succeeding. If you want to be a developer, hire someone with a business sense to lead you. If you want to be a leader, don't tell your employees how to code, give them reasonable guidelines and if they are unable to live up to the guidelines then fire them. If you want to be both, which really isn't the best of ideas, don't bury yourself in detail and make sure not to look over your employees shoulders all the time.
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Partially agree... although it's not healthy not to be able to delegate tasks and trust people take good care of you it's also not smart not to keep track of what's going on... problem is that programmers smart enough to manage a whole project usually don't work for a boss... I think the healthiest way is to either know how to manage programmers yourself (or be one) or get someone on board (on board being not 'just' on the payroll) that can take care of the technical side of your business. Don't underestimate the programming. Bad programming fixed by bad programmers leads to even worse programming usually and will always hurt maintainability of your site. Also, never put yourself in the position where the programmer can tell you what to do. If he's 'just' on the payroll and you get into an argument remember that most power is with the programmer. He has the power to take down a site at the flick of a switch... Not that you should be scared of hiring a programmer, but it's always smart to think about these things before you run into any problems...
I've been in this industry for a while now and I've seen programmers and tech people hijack a whole company. And not only in this industry. As many of you know I run a recording studio in the Netherlands. For an English movie I was hired to do the surround post processing, but the guy that did the audio kept some of the dialogs on his laptop so they couldn't go around him... of course he refused to give me the dialog of one actor and I couldn't do the surround mix... Better safe then sorry...