If Working Alone Keep Mood, Work Standards High
Work Alone without Feeling Down or Lonely, Achieve Business Dreams
Oct 20, 2009
No matter how much money rolls in the door, working alone still presents great challenges to any business start-up. Whether working alone requires taking care of administrative duties, sales, and operations, or means lonely hours at home, work alone long enough, and keeping a high mood becomes challenging.
Benefits of Working Alone
- Rapid decision making as the sole decider. When alone, there is no one else to second guess or have other priorities. This can be both a blessing and a curse. Speedy decisions made alone can become big problems that have to be handled alone.
- Working safe without distractions, or potential annoyances. When alone, there is nothing getting in the way of creating the winning business proposal or quotation.
- Working standards can be exactly what the business start-up entrepreneur wants without anyone muddying the waters. Want the spreadsheet to include every minor expense? Want the product to be blue instead of red? All of these standards are set based on the sole start-up businessperson's working standards.
- No office politics. Without people around, there can be no conflicts or egos to soothe.
Challenges of Working Alone
- No one to share the burdens with. These burdens include the administrative details such as accounting, emails, and the government paperwork. Sharing such duties can improve a business partnership. Working alone however, means that all of these mundane and boring activities must be handled by the start-up businessperson, alone.
- No one to share the joys with. Even though a spouse or significant other can share in celebrating business success, having a partner working alongside makes the triumph one of teamwork and companionship. Working alone makes it all a one-man band and there is no one to high-five. This is one of the most challenging aspects of going it alone.
- Liability falls on the sole proprietor. This is a strong enough reason that many business start-ups choose to set-up a board and executive team to share the responsibility along with the liability of a business start-up. Because the legal requirements for operating businesses become more burdensome and strict, this factor works against working alone.
The ultimate decision on whether to work alone depends on the personality of the entrepreneur. Some business people would rather suffer through a bad partnership, then have tremendous success alone because the idea of going it alone is too difficult. Modern business, even internet businesses, require hours of long, hard labor, made easier when the burden is shared between business partners.
Working alone means working harder, longer, and smarter, just to keep up with the other businesses formed by partnerships. 1+1 = 3 in a good business partnership. Even if choosing to work alone, getting outside help will lighten the burden and make business much more enjoyable and keep the mood higher no matter the challenges.
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