To Hire or Not to Hire

Entrepreneurship Archives - Dale Callahan · Sep 13, 2011

If you are like me, you often find yourself needing someone else to do work for you. But who do you need? Do you hire a pro who will cost serious cash, hire in someone like an intern, or delegate to someone on your staff? (And by hire I mean pay an outsider to do the work I do. I do not mean put them on the payroll permanently.)

Here are my rough rules on this issue.

Rule 1 : DELEGATE – I know how to do it myself and I have a team member who want to learn. In this case I delegate it to the team member and offer them the resources to help them grow, such as tools or training.

Rule 2 …