Comments on: Surround your staff with advisors http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2008/05/28/surround-your-staff-with-advisors/ A blog about our thoughts on entrepreneurship, teamwork, our services, the Web and anything we find interesting. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:26:59 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Rick Baskett http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2008/05/28/surround-your-staff-with-advisors/comment-page-1/#comment-60755 Rick Baskett Fri, 30 May 2008 19:23:36 +0000 http://www.freshbooks.com/?p=1331#comment-60755 One of the best employers that I have worked for, really wasnt all that knowledgeable or talented at business. He was really good at the service his business provided though, which was hard since he was the owner and in an administrator roll, instead of doing the work all the time. What made him such an amazing success though was that he could spot talent. He surrounded himself with people who were amazing at what they did, and because of that he was able to build an extremely successful business. One of the best employers that I have worked for, really wasnt all that knowledgeable or talented at business. He was really good at the service his business provided though, which was hard since he was the owner and in an administrator roll, instead of doing the work all the time. What made him such an amazing success though was that he could spot talent. He surrounded himself with people who were amazing at what they did, and because of that he was able to build an extremely successful business.

]]> By: Alistair Morton http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2008/05/28/surround-your-staff-with-advisors/comment-page-1/#comment-60602 Alistair Morton Thu, 29 May 2008 00:27:21 +0000 http://www.freshbooks.com/?p=1331#comment-60602 There is something to be said for finding people with experience to lead these young employees. I was lucky enough to have in my first role as a designer ( sigh, 1992 ) under a very patient mentor, who basically taught me that everything I learnt in art school would fit on to 2 pages of paper, and the rest of the design journey would fill a few volumes of encyclopedias. Good mentors are really hard to find, so I imagine finding the people to fill these mentor roles would need much more attention in the hiring process, than finding the ones they'd be leading. There is something to be said for finding people with experience to lead these young employees.

I was lucky enough to have in my first role as a designer ( sigh, 1992 ) under a very patient mentor, who basically taught me that everything I learnt in art school would fit on to 2 pages of paper, and the rest of the design journey would fill a few volumes of encyclopedias.

Good mentors are really hard to find, so I imagine finding the people to fill these mentor roles would need much more attention in the hiring process, than finding the ones they’d be leading.

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