For most entrepreneurs, ambition far exceeds even a superhuman workday. No matter how you slice and dice it, one person can only do so much. To do more, requires something more than working really, really hard. It requires delegation.
There may only be one of you in the world, but there are plenty of other people. So to overcome the speed bump of your own personal capacities, you’re going to need to get other people to do your work. This can be quite a daunting prospect, after all how do you find people? How can you trust them to do a good job? How do you pay them? What if they don’t work out?
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Editor’s Note: I originally wrote this for ZenHabits back in June 2008, but I’ve brought it over as I think NS readers will find it interesting!
Have you ever written out a list of goals you’d like to achieve and thought, ‘How can I get all this done’? Or seen an opportunity that you’ve had to pass by because you are just flat out? Life is a torrent of choices and possibilities, and often it’s hard to let them go. Should you compromise? Or do you just need a better game plan?
As an easily excitable person, I have a really hard time constraining myself to doing just a few things. Every project seems worth doing, every opportunity worth taking. Still I know that for many people, work is a way to make enough money to relax and enjoy life. If that sounds like you, then you may not get much out of this article. However, if your days are filled to the brim and yet you still can’t wait to start that new project, then I am speaking to you! Read More
One of the best things about working here at Envato is that we have an awesome team of people building, managing, writing, reviewing and working on our sites. Yep, things have come a long way since the early days when there was just a few of us trying to do everything!
Recently our awesome Tuts+ interviewer Emil asked if I minded being video interviewed with some questions put forward by the Psdtuts+ readers. Since no-one really wants to see my enormous head on screen for too long a period of time, I asked my lovely wife and partner in crime Cyan if she’d be in on the interview and we thought we’d put up the video to help celebrate 3 years of Envato.
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The more years I rack up behind a monitor, the worse my eyesight seems to be getting. These days I have no patience for reading small text on-screen, and this has wound up reflected in my web designs of late. A prime example is this very blog, theNetsetter which is a really simple WordPress theme I designed with the primary goal of readability in mind. Read More
As a young company that is growing (relatively) fast, one of the challenges we face at Envato is to create and keep the right company culture. Today I came across a really brilliant slide presentation from Netflix about their company culture. It’s a really fantastic manual and one I can see I’m going to be referring back to over and over as we grow Envato. Read More
