FT.com / Entrepreneurship - One giant step is to move away from the controls

" Many founders of fast-growing businesses at some stage come to a point where they have to let go. This is seldom easy, as Ed Reeves discovered."

This is so often the experience for entrepreneurs trying to bring in the new management layer.

People with personality; because they cant easily fake that at an interview like so many that can spin out their CV!

FT.com / Entrepreneurship - One giant step is to move away from the controls

It also begs the question - why the founder wants to step back and what message that send to the staff and customers if its not done well. Who business is it anyway!! ;-)