Vusi Thembekwayo makes the point that if you can’t take leave because
your business stops, you aren’t an Entrepreneur, you are Self-Employed. We glamourize
Business Ownership, but part of running a Business is coordinating the efforts
of others and smoothing their experience. Taking on the stress. Holiday leave. Sick
leave. Maternity and Paternity leave. A regular paycheck. Security that if a
reasonable job is done, it should be hard to ask the person to leave. Self-Employment
means you end up needing to provide those benefits to yourself. You need an
Engine or a Buffer to do that. For Businesses, this means a strong Balance
Sheet (Capital not just Debt) and good Cash Flow (Money there when it is needed).
The ability to weather difficult periods, and discipline during the good
periods. If the underlying creativity is there, with patience and time, endurance
and resilience increases. The stress doesn’t disappear. It is managed.
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