Comments on: It’s not what your employees can do for your business, it’s what you can do!

By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:22:34 +0000

You definitely have to build a strong relationship to gain employee retention.

By: cha0211

cha0211 — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 02:51:33 +0000

i’ve encountered bosses who only cares for themselves. so no employee wants to stay longer than a year. sometimes a good relationship with your boss is a factor for a stronger business.

By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:26:12 +0000

Hey stuff like that happens, but it’s best to learn from it and move forward.

By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:23:54 +0000

lol, yeah that is very true. The difference is obviously the stability, but if you can past that, it’s not an issue.

By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:23:21 +0000

Yeah, that is pretty interesting how that works. Shows you the difference between the two arenas.

By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:21:17 +0000

There really is a medium that you should be at to be successful with employees, unfortunately, some people cross it.

By: DNS Hosting

DNS Hosting — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 14:22:26 +0000

It was never salary with me. I even took pay cuts and had no issue because I truly believed in the company, I am really sad they let me down.

By: Nora McDougall-Collins

Nora McDougall-Collins — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 04:55:53 +0000

Bosses treat their contractors a lot better than they treat their employees. There is a reason I’m a contractor!

By: Nora McDougall-Collins

Nora McDougall-Collins — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 04:54:49 +0000

My husband was in the military. He says that the enlisted folks knew a lot about their officers, but the officers knew very little about their enlisted folk. Interesting!

By: DNS Hosting

DNS Hosting — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 01:09:12 +0000

I have had all of the above. It is not only annoying but disheartening at the same time. I have worked for companies I loved and left because the boss was not easy to deal with. While I loved the company as it were my own and it was doing well but not the way it should have been run. The boss was way too hard on people and didn’t ever let up even when they exceeded, it got stressful to deal with.

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By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:50:03 +0000

lol, always glad to hear that Tanveer. Glad to have you as a subscriber now

By: Tanveer

Tanveer — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:02:13 +0000

Hi Sir,

Really very nice post for hungry bosses. And I have also learned lot before I start a company.

And this is my first visit for your blog, but the bad thing is from morning I am engaged with your blog posts.

I think today you will get very low bounce rate.

Keep blogging and have a nice day…

By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:31:57 +0000

As bosses, there’s a lot more than just running the joint. you control a mini world that you need to maximize and function.

By: mini refrigerator freezers

mini refrigerator freezers — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:39:40 +0000

It’s true that, as bosses, we usually focus on what our reports can get done and not how we can contribute.

By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:37:37 +0000

Very true, parents ultimately create the habits and patterns that the children begin to develop over time. So it only makes sense to be more aware of how you raise them .

By: sell textbooks

sell textbooks — Wed, 26 May 2010 13:03:21 +0000

I have had my fair share of bosses. While I was unemployed I went back into the restaurant business, and other than the fact that I was not happy about going back to waitressing, I enjoyed my job. I always remembering wishing I had a cool manager and i found out quickly why I never did. Because the cool ones don’t get the job done and get in the way of the ones who are trying to do their job. I have to say to the parents out there, you don’t do your kids any favors by not making them work for what they get.

By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 03:20:11 +0000

Well they’re definitely is a fine line between a good boss that can motivate with pleasure and bad boss that just pushed pain.

By: Euro Boy

Euro Boy — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 06:57:46 +0000

From my experience, bad boss is better than good boss. Most of bad boss looks bad to his subbordinates because they want to get things done on time and they are more concern with the business. Most of good boss doesnt care about anything and they are being good because they have some hidden agenda from the back of their mind. Good boss are not as authoritative as bad boss. Nice post. Thanks.

By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:23:24 +0000

All my lists are combined and the only thing I email to people are updates on new posts.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:28:54 +0000

Are you building a seperate email list for those who want to stay up to date on your products (ie. Web 2.0 Poverty) ?

Thanks.

By: senior homes

senior homes — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:36:08 +0000

Before I became a SEO freelancer in internet, I once become an employee in a fast food chain in our country(Philippines). I always want an employer that leads us in right task and a professional one that doesn’t get pissed very easily. In that way your employees is more likely to stay with you thus, you can build good relationship in each employee, and if that happens, you can all work well, and achieving your goal as a company is just right there to all of you.

Happy to share this. .

By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:11:01 +0000

Some employees, yes, can give you great excellent ideas, but no all. Be focused on becoming a good leader to direct your employees in the right direction.

By: Detox Guru

Detox Guru — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:07:41 +0000

Couldn’t agree more Neil. One can’t really depend fully on the employees to move the company forward. The long term plans still has to come from you mainly but it would be good to hold a sharing session once in a while so that you can get your employee involved in the future of the company. You can really get some good ideas from your employee.

By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:13:30 +0000

I agree with that… you need to have gone through the experience of doing it before teaching it.

By: Maurelle Mejos

Maurelle Mejos — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:58:40 +0000

There’s a saying: To be a good employer, you must try to become an employee first. hehe

By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:24:02 +0000

Yes, that’s why its important to choose the right employee.

By: Imrozz Web Design

Imrozz Web Design — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:02:30 +0000

i think both needs to cooperate for the work to be done successfully.

By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:13:06 +0000

Well of course one must delegate work to the employees to become most effective and efficient… but the manager needs to understand the power they have to make things happen. It’s not that manager time is more precious, because employee time is too.

By: Chetan Kambli

Chetan Kambli — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:11:32 +0000

Hey Neil, I just had an doubt, Most of the sucessful Managers and businesses believe, Make the work done rather then doing it ourselves, I mean its better to hire an employee then do the same work being an boss, Manager time is more precious then the normal employee,