POV: How to be CEO of a small business

Our friend Zane Safrit is sharing his point of view as a small business CEO.

You need others and others’ help to be a success. It takes a lot more’n a village to create a successful company. Don’t be afraid to ask for help. Hire people lots better than you in these key areas. Create a place where it’s mostly hard fun (that’s not my phrase, but I can’t remember who coined it.) to work together. Stay out of their way. Keep others out of their way.

That’s pretty much my day as a small business CEO.

Read the entire article. It’s short, and good.

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Becky started Small Biz Survival in 2006 to share rural business and community building stories and ideas with other small town business people. She and her husband have a small cattle ranch and are lifelong entrepreneurs. Becky is an international speaker on small business and rural topics.

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