Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

Meet Kevin Says NO EMPLOYEES is the Best

14 Jul 2022 · 1 min

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Short conversational excerpt from a YouTube video titled "Meet Kevin Says NO EMPLOYEES is the Best." The speaker describes an anecdote where a business owner went from high profits to hiring five employees and losing money, then regained profitability after eliminating employees. The speaker argues that the easiest businesses are solo or fully-scaled companies with management systems, and that a dangerous "dead zone" exists for mid-sized small businesses (roughly early employee growth) where owners lack systems and newly promoted staff lack management training.

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So he went from making a lot of money to having five employees to making no money. And then as soon as he got rid of them, he was making money again. Is there like a wilderness, do you think, in terms of small businesses, the easiest business for somebody to run is just themselves and, like, their spouse or, like, one employee or whatever? Because it's just. It's you. The money you make, you keep. Right? The next easiest business to run is a business that just operates to the point where it's already got 50 to 100 employees, you've already got management in place, you've got systems in place. I think that that dead zone in the middle is terrible because that dead zone in the middle is where people are like, oh, my Gosh, I have 10 employees now. But I didn't teach my top employee, who used to just be my assistant, how to be a manager. But now you're expecting to be a manager. Maybe you don't have the systems for it or whatever. Total disaster, that zone, the worst.