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MIKE: Knowing what I know now, I would do it differently.

HATTIE: There are two kinds of small business owners. There are the folks who have done all the different pieces of the task and they know how to do everything; then there's the other type who are strictly business folks who don't know the stages or the craft's steps. So you're a person who's done it all. Do you think that has helped you manage folks because you know their job and you understand it and you've done those jobs before?

MIKE: Yes, in some ways that's a benefit and in other ways that's not a benefit because, like I say, you do think that there's a better way to do it and you could do it better, but you just can't manage all those departments and you just got to let others do the work.

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And actually I found out that 99 percent of the time, they're right and my way of doing it would probably not be the way to do it.

HATTIE: What do you think you've done wrong? Do you think there are mistakes, you've said, `Oh, jeez, why'd I do that?' Can you look back and say, `That was a mistake'?

MIKE: I think the biggest mistake that I've had is not dealing out job descriptions quick enough. `OK, this is your job. You do this. This is your job. You do this.' It's like, `Well, you guys know what you were supposed to be doing. I don't have to tell you.' No, and that's not true. You have to make people comfortable in their jobs, and the only way to do that is to give them a job description and--so they know every day when they come in what they're supposed to be doing.

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