Business people create work for others

There has been a lot of talk of overpaid bankers in the last year or so, and unfortunately everyone who works in a bank has become tarred with the same brush.

"Oh, you work in bank, do you? You've lost all our money and get a bonus for doing so!"

Totally unfair on the poor cashier and 95 per cent of people in the banking industry who are victims of others' excesses like most of us are.

In a similar way business owners have become tainted. As the economy falters and unemployment grows there is a tendency to blame it all on "money-grabbing" business owners.

Yet most business owners - and I include myself in this - are desperately struggling to make their small business a success, and, critically, create work for other people. That's because to make a business really work, it has to be scaleable and cannot remain a one-man band.

At WriteItClearly.com we three partners do everything we can to get more work than we can handle so that we can pass it on to our sub-contractors. In this way we expand our business AND create work for other people (yes, it was worth saying again).

Without business people and entrepreneurs doing this, what work would there be?

Stop slating business people. We need more support, not less.