Comments on: Food for thought from an advisor http://www.itsmybusiness.info/food-for-thought-%e2%80%93-an-advisor%e2%80%99s-perspective/ It’s My Business Info is a blog about the experiences of entrepreneurs in Yorkshire. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:53:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: John http://www.itsmybusiness.info/food-for-thought-%e2%80%93-an-advisor%e2%80%99s-perspective/#comment-11 Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:51:59 +0000 http://www.itsmybusiness.info/food-for-thought-%e2%80%93-an-advisor%e2%80%99s-perspective/#comment-11 I do agree with your comment that in any business you have to be good at what you do to survive - but the big shock to me when I first set up my business was that whilst I'd gone into it because I felt I was good at something, I ended up spending most of my time working on other things that I wasn't so good at - such as solving staffing problems and doing Health & safety risk assessments!! I don't suppose there's any way round that - you just have to get up to speed on so many things so quickly - and that's the challenge. I think Gordon Ramsay speaks such basic common sense - but I do have some sympathy for the people he encounters in those restaurants, because sometimes you're working so hard and so close to the coalface that its really difficult to take that objective step back and see the bleeding obvious!! I do agree with your comment that in any business you have to be good at what you do to survive - but the big shock to me when I first set up my business was that whilst I’d gone into it because I felt I was good at something, I ended up spending most of my time working on other things that I wasn’t so good at - such as solving staffing problems and doing Health & safety risk assessments!! I don’t suppose there’s any way round that - you just have to get up to speed on so many things so quickly - and that’s the challenge.

I think Gordon Ramsay speaks such basic common sense - but I do have some sympathy for the people he encounters in those restaurants, because sometimes you’re working so hard and so close to the coalface that its really difficult to take that objective step back and see the bleeding obvious!!

]]> by: Rowena http://www.itsmybusiness.info/food-for-thought-%e2%80%93-an-advisor%e2%80%99s-perspective/#comment-7 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:22:07 +0000 http://www.itsmybusiness.info/food-for-thought-%e2%80%93-an-advisor%e2%80%99s-perspective/#comment-7 Have you ever been called in to advise a business, and it's in such a mess you don't know where to start? Have you ever been called in to advise a business, and it’s in such a mess you don’t know where to start?

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