If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business — you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic!… - Michael Gerber

If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business — you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic!

If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business — you have a job.

Don’t you see? If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business — you have a job.

If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business — you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic.

And that is the sign of a Mature company. A Mature company is started differently than all the rest. A Mature company is founded on a broader perspective, an entrepreneurial perspective, a more intelligent point of view. About building a business that works not because of you but without you.

Rather than being their greatest single asset, knowing to do the technical (professional) work of the business becomes their greatest single liability.

It is — first, last, and always — about how you act.