Mark Osborne argues that business owners often neglect themselves while serving employees and clients, eroding their love for the company. He says businesses should be redesigned so the owner's well-being isn't sacrificed, and that a company must also exist to provide the founder personal satisfaction and financial wealth.
How many times do you feel like when you are the owner of a company, you're feeding everybody, and then you eat last? Yeah. And sometimes you don't eat enough. I know that for a lot of people that may be listening to this podcast, that may be a thing where you feel like you're working for everybody else. And what about you? Like, who's taking care of you? Right? And, and I think that's when you start falling in love with your business again, and you start understanding that, you know, that there are different ways to organize a business so that you don't have to, like, put yourself last. I mean, you can— I mean, obviously, you want to take care of of the team and your clients and, and your suppliers and all of that, but you also want to take care of you. The business has to be— it needs to exist to also give you satisfaction, to give— to make you wealthier.
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