I want to keep my clients happy, and the pressure's on me as the boss to manage my three assistants and make sure that everything is getting done. There's less time for tears and more time for bossing people around.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I know what it's like and how hard my assistants work, and I try to treat them as fair as possible and make the office a fun environment.
When you're an assistant, you're executing the wishes of your boss.
Most of the pressure comes from myself, not from others. I don't need a manager or a pundit to put pressure on me. I do all that myself before others do it.
Well, I like empowering my clients.
My job is to hire the best and brightest employees and empower them to do their best work. As a manager, I am not a mind reader nor an expert at every job function. Therefore, it is incumbent on all hires to feel empowered to tell me what resources they need to do their job.
I'm avoiding having an assistant because then I would become the horrible boss. I can't justify having an assistant as a 25-year-old; I just can't do it!
I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.
Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy just wouldn't work.
I have a staff of 12 people, so it's easy for them to handle all the management and the day to day at the company while I'm directing.
I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine.