Straight Maintain a detached point of view. Managing a growing business requires unyielding dedication that can consume the body, impair the senses and warp the mind. Such effects are harmful to the individual and the enterprise. Clinical objectivity is the only preventative.
Growth implies and entails risk.
Risk begets failures as well as successes. Wide perspective gained through nonbusiness experience or study helps one endure the pressures and accept with equanimity the results, good and bad, of business decisions. Travel Light Limit the number of primary participants to people who can consciously agree upon and contribute directly to that which the enterprise is to accomplish. There are many reasons people become involved in young, growing companies as owners, investors, or key employees. The broad range of satisfaction sought runs from an opportunity to personal expression on one end of the spectrum to capital gains on the other.