Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you

You don’t know it all. So don’t pretend that you do. Surround yourself with people who know more about everything that needs to happen, than you do! There is nothing wrong with knowing the processes and maybe even the actual details of doing the job. But there comes a time when what you know is outdated.

Someone once asked Henry Ford some technical aspects of the automobile. He responded he did not know the answer. When quizzed on why he did not know the answer to a question about the production of the automobile, he response was, “I don’t have to know the answers. I have a row of buttons on my phone. If I need to know something, I push one of those buttons and the person on the other end, who is the expert in that area, will tell me the information I need to know about.”

Even if you are a solopreneur, you have people you rely on for services you need in your business. Office supplies, copier support, FedEx or UPS, etc. So you are not alone in these areas. Correct? 

Be like Henry Ford. Surround yourself with people who know more than you in the various areas of your business.

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