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Mark Jenner
A lot of people are frustrated working for others and seek to set up for themselves. This can be a challenge but most never regret the move. Some even want to keep on growing their business. Each world wide organisation was at some time in its history a small business. Usually this involved somebody with a trade deciding to go it alone. The same can be said as much for Gates before Microsoft was established as it is for an accountant leaving PWC to set up a local firm. As a skilled person, whether it be in accountancy, plumbing or information technology, when you want to work for yourself you must be happy that you can win jobs and look after the administration of the business. This can be very challenging, but there are some who realise that they are much better at running the business than they are at doing the work! By hiring administrative staff and others with technical capabilities they see more profits by allowing them to concentrate on bringing in new customers and overseeing the business. If we take the example of an accountant, it is easy to see the driving factors behind this progression. The successful, dynamic and entrepreneurial person will no doubt have reached a reasonably senior position within the accounting profession by the time he or she feels that working for others is too constraining. A good quality lifestyle will be expected and they will know the sorts of fees that need to be charged to achieve this working for themselves. They will soon realise that their time is too valuable to be spent undertaking administrative work. They are better employed charging the clients the high hourly rate. This results in there being an incentive to employ a secretary. At the same time a lot of the repetitive work could easily be done by someone with less experience and the need for assistants seen. As the enthusiastic business owner builds up the business even further he may begin to realise that more efficiency could be gained if additional staff spent time sharing his duties of winning work and supervising junior staff. Before long he will have hired at senior staff level and even brought in new partners to share in his ownership of the firm. It will not be long before the entrepreneur ceases doing any accounting whatsoever and spends all of the time on strategic management such as negotiating mergers and acquisitions of other accounting firms and thus growing the business even more!
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