Day 2

Day 2 is pure hard labor. I was doing a lot of data entering manually in building my database. The Database will be the central part of the value add and without it the tools I build don’t make sense and in a few hours of fast paced activity I built probably 0.5% of my desired content. Right now it is hard to automate the process and once I reach India I will hire help to do this crud work. For now it is me and I really love it. My goal is to never delegate a task that you don’t know how to do it. Delegate only when you know the task so that you can find the appropriate labor and cost it effectively.

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Leadership

Whenever I deal with a business I try to observe hard on the activity of their leaders vs their workers. Whether it is car dealership, restaurants, grocery store, there are bits and pieces of leadership that could either be emulated or avoided.

I eat out a lot and I try to observe how the store owner/manager acts. The best leaders I see are the ones who have dignity of labor who would clean up the tables and take the trash if needed. They would do anything to increase the comfort of the customer while keeping the process streamlined.

I categorize 3 types of leaders based on delegation – first group delegates everything without having the slightest understanding of what it is, and would both be ignorant of the tasks and disrespectful of some of the menial tasks he expects of the workers. Second group takes all the activities upon themselves out of pure love or the inertia involved in asking somebody to do something, and at some point they leave out the most important tasks. Third group takes up any task in the organization that is needed asap – even it means handling trash, while constantly be on the look out for delegating it if he has more important tasks to attend to.

In the end, a leader is somebody who leads – meaning he needs to know the path and handle the first brush, and somebody who doesn’t walk alone and passes some of his chores to his followers.