If I'd only known then what I know now!

Most people who start their own business and then go on to hire people, are often stunned by all the trouble a single employee can sometimes bring into the workplace.

Because, most of the time, it is just one person who causes the problems. You may have 3 or 4 individuals working for you, all doing fine, and then, you hire a fifth - and before you know it, your company is in a tailspin, thanks to the antics of this single employee.

How many business owners look back, after such an episode, and say: If only I'd known then what I know now!

I've just written and published a book which I hope will get small business owners, but especially new business owners, up to speed on all the dimensions of safe hiring.

The book is called Other People's Problems: Why you need to go on interviewing your employees - after you hire them! and it's available both in print format and in a downloadable version. (Details at http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/other_peoples_problems/9268001.)

From time to time, I'll be posting "war stories" on my blog, both from my own experience and other people's. If you have one to share, send it to me. Full anonymity guaranteed if I share the tale.

Copyright Deborah C. Sawyer
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