Challenge
- Author:
- Jamie Greenwood
- Business:
- NJL Yorkline
- Published:
- 10/11/2008 11:14:00
I went from being a twenty seven year old employee to the twenty seven year old boss. I was in charge of people twice my age, probably when I was one of the youngest members of the team. Loads of problems sprang up because of that. Whilst I took on board their views, I found it difficult to try and explain my point of view with certain decisions, especially regarding change.
Thinking about it now I’d have much preferred to have started a business from scratch. Its fine to inherit one of the business is developing but not if it’s stagnated, even if it’s got a lot of history and goodwill. I would say always buy a business with an opportunity to develop it.