As entrepreneurs, we share one major trait… we like to do everything ourselves.
Lot’s of business people find it very difficult letting go of certain day to day tasks, they believe that the person who they hire will not be able to do it as successfully, therefore they often try to do everything themselves.
The issue here is that as entrepreneurs, our time is valuable, so spending all day writing emails is hardly the best use of our time. However, there is one major problem with outsourcing or hiring anyone…
People are generally useless!
Seriously, the general public are idiots!
I have worked in retail stores, bookmakers, at football stadiums, in stores… and in EVERY case, the stupidity of the general public was incredible.
That is the main reason I work online, I can just hit the block button if someone is talking nonsense. If only there was a block button in real life.
Anyway, I was recently reading a thread at DigitalPoint forums, and it tells the story of one guy who hired 26 people to do some writing for him. Out of the 26 people, how many do you think successfully completed the simple task?
I will let you find out for yourselves: See the thread here.
People are generally useless! Remember that next time you hire someone.
Dean
5 responses so far ↓
1 Chris Auer // Jul 27, 2007 at 3:29 am
A good leader should see past the “stupidity” of the people, and hone in on what traits can be utilized and encouraged. Google didn’t start, nor does it operate by only the founders. Just my 2 cents worth!
2 DeanHunt // Jul 27, 2007 at 9:06 am
Chris - Sure, the spiritual or wise thing to do would be to accept people’s mistakes and help them learn as we learn.
However, sometimes you just gotta get it out your system, people are generally dumb!
Go read the comments on any front page Digg.com story for proof
3 Dare // Jul 30, 2007 at 5:09 pm
One multi-millionaire who is still alive said: “Masses are asses”. Dean, you’re right. People are generally useless, it’s not that they have low IQ or something, it’s they are social and media brainwashed (big topic).
4 Dave Ledoux // Nov 8, 2007 at 8:27 pm
There must be a way to qualify the good from the bad…to get the ambitious ones to raise their hands. Filters to trap out the waste of oxygen and leave the gold nuggets. Damned if I know what it is…
5 michael // Dec 7, 2007 at 11:27 am
yes, i agree with you that entrepreneur time is valuable
and there is no need of hiring other people for writing mails. I have seen many people who are enterprenuers will do home based business apart from other business.
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