Management

Sometimes I wonder if its worth working for someone at all. Business sense tells me that working for someone is like being in a comfort zone. All you have to do is come in to work and do your job. You don’t have to worry about the company failing in 6 months…

But the inevitable realization is always that it’s better to be at the top of the food chain then at the bottom, or even in the comfortable middle. The middle is really the comfort zone for many corporate employees who get comfortable with the system and end up staying in the middle for their 30 or 40 year careers.

Even management is only a mediocre solution to the comfort zone problem. Management seems to be the goal of many ambitious young grads, myself included, but there are different types of management.

Department heads in small companies can and do make a difference but are often bogged down by other department heads, this is even true for the owner.

The owner is the manager that really matters in the big picture. In a private company the owner can make or break the company and it is to ownership that only the few that can get out of the comfort zone aspire.