... you must also be ready for the responsibility that goes with the title. Everything from taking care of the marketing, doing the books, hiring and firing, training employees, purchasing materials, inventory, and equipment, taking care of customers, and even cleaning the bathrooms becomes your job; basically the buck stops with you. The only way to know if you can make it ... I did have to work on customer acceptance. Would the "regulars- approve of a new partner/owner who was taking care of the restaurant on a daily basis? I was lucky; I have an extroverted personality and am also a coff...

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... my value as an employee, a few months ago, I answered a Kersey Temperament Sorter II questionnaire for an AMA Communications Seminar. The test is based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality inventory and its applications in organizational settings (Hirsh & Kummerow, 1998). The results placed me in two of the sixteen types: Introverted Sensing with Thinking (ISTJ) and Introverted Sensing with Feeling (ISFJ ... ...

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... order to run a successful business. In Fritz's (1984) book, "nobody gets rich working for somebody else, he states that successful businesses are formed by people who share a number of important personality characteristics, they must: have a capacity for work-including a willingness to put in long hours, be goal-oriented, be a self-started, one who doesn't need to be "pushed", has good judgement ... payroll taxes and workers compensation insurance. Some of the other laws and taxes that I became familiar with were: Federal income, self-employment, and excise taxes, state income taxes, gr...

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