Comments on: Shared Answers 2007: Part 2, The Solution http://lillieammann.com/2007/08/07/shared-answers-2007-part-2-the-solution/ A Writer's Words, An Editor's Eye Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:53:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: A Writer’s Words, An Editor’s Eye » Blog Archive » What I Learned from Animals http://lillieammann.com/2007/08/07/shared-answers-2007-part-2-the-solution/comment-page-1/#comment-1159 A Writer’s Words, An Editor’s Eye » Blog Archive » What I Learned from Animals Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:47:31 +0000 http://lillieammann.com/blog/2007/08/07/shared-answers-2007-part-2-the-solution/#comment-1159 [...] This was back in the days when I showed up at my interior landscape company by the time the doors opened, before I learned to trust my managers to manage. [...] [...] This was back in the days when I showed up at my interior landscape company by the time the doors opened, before I learned to trust my managers to manage. [...]

]]> By: A Writer’s Words, An Editor’s Eye » Blog Archive » Shared Answers 2007: Part 1, The Problem http://lillieammann.com/2007/08/07/shared-answers-2007-part-2-the-solution/comment-page-1/#comment-1158 A Writer’s Words, An Editor’s Eye » Blog Archive » Shared Answers 2007: Part 1, The Problem Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:43:11 +0000 http://lillieammann.com/blog/2007/08/07/shared-answers-2007-part-2-the-solution/#comment-1158 [...] The solution I came up with was counter-intuitive, but it did more than solve the problem of my chaotic mornings. I believe it actually saved my business a few years later when I had a stroke and couldn’t work for an extended period of time. [...] [...] The solution I came up with was counter-intuitive, but it did more than solve the problem of my chaotic mornings. I believe it actually saved my business a few years later when I had a stroke and couldn’t work for an extended period of time. [...]

]]> By: WritingThoughts » Blog Archive » Shared Answers — The Solutions/Approaches http://lillieammann.com/2007/08/07/shared-answers-2007-part-2-the-solution/comment-page-1/#comment-1149 WritingThoughts » Blog Archive » Shared Answers — The Solutions/Approaches Sat, 18 Aug 2007 05:07:37 +0000 http://lillieammann.com/blog/2007/08/07/shared-answers-2007-part-2-the-solution/#comment-1149 [...] Lillie at A Writer’s Words, An Editor’s shares how she dealt with hectic mornings at a company that she owned. [...] [...] Lillie at A Writer’s Words, An Editor’s shares how she dealt with hectic mornings at a company that she owned. [...]

]]> By: Lillie http://lillieammann.com/2007/08/07/shared-answers-2007-part-2-the-solution/comment-page-1/#comment-1154 Lillie Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:52:03 +0000 http://lillieammann.com/blog/2007/08/07/shared-answers-2007-part-2-the-solution/#comment-1154 Thanks, Matt, for your vote! I remember lying in my hospital bed the morning after the stroke, worrying about my future and the future of my company. I had just purchased business interruption insurance, and the salesmen had given me frightening statistics of how many businesses failed because of illness or disability of the owner. Unfortunately, I had one step to go before the policy went into effect - I was scheduled for the required physical at the same time I was lying in the hospital picturing my business closing. So I was very aware of what a blessing it was that my employees kept our business from becoming one of the statistics. Thanks, Matt, for your vote! I remember lying in my hospital bed the morning after the stroke, worrying about my future and the future of my company.

I had just purchased business interruption insurance, and the salesmen had given me frightening statistics of how many businesses failed because of illness or disability of the owner. Unfortunately, I had one step to go before the policy went into effect - I was scheduled for the required physical at the same time I was lying in the hospital picturing my business closing.

So I was very aware of what a blessing it was that my employees kept our business from becoming one of the statistics.

]]> By: Matt Keegan http://lillieammann.com/2007/08/07/shared-answers-2007-part-2-the-solution/comment-page-1/#comment-1150 Matt Keegan Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:54:36 +0000 http://lillieammann.com/blog/2007/08/07/shared-answers-2007-part-2-the-solution/#comment-1150 <p>This story gets my vote. Okay, I know that I am not voting but Lillie's account of handling a problem was spot on. I like it that when Lillie became ill, her staff was able to keep the business going. Imagine how things would have been if she hadn't let go of the reins months earlier.</p> This story gets my vote. Okay, I know that I am not voting but Lillie’s account of handling a problem was spot on. I like it that when Lillie became ill, her staff was able to keep the business going. Imagine how things would have been if she hadn’t let go of the reins months earlier.

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