I have had my fair share of "slings and arrows" and made costly losses with outsourcing and also direct hires. Reflecting on the losses, I realised that placing my reliance on their domain expertise, was basically signaling to them that I was giving them carte blanche to exploit my ignorance. But there is no escaping that as a business owner, I have to hire or outsource parts of the work to others.

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