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Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:47:31 +0000

[...] 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. [...]

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Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:43:11 +0000

[...] 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. [...]

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Sat, 18 Aug 2007 05:07:37 +0000

[...] Lillie at A Writer’s Words, An Editor’s shares how she dealt with hectic mornings at a company that she owned. [...]

By: Lillie

Lillie — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:52:03 +0000

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

Matt Keegan — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:54:36 +0000

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.