Last week I was out, cycling from Surrey to Tsawwassen, when on the way home I just couldn’t make a tight 90°, fell over and crushed my right hand between the pavement and the handlebar.
With my dominant hand in a splint, I now “operate” my mouse with my left hand, I type excruciatingly slowly, and cannot do many chores altogether.
It’s a major inconvenience for me, but it confirmed again the thing I have talked about often: business owners, who run a business that is reliant on their daily involvement, risk everything!
An injury, just slightly more severe than my broken hand, can put them out of operation for weeks or months, and thus destroy their legacy (loyal staff lose their jobs, retirement assets are lost).
I quite often remark, sort of jokingly, that “80 year old business owners are similar to 18 year old kids that go to war: nothing will happen to them”.
It requires an incident like mine to make them aware of their own vulnerability, unfortunately.
The good thing: once this has happened, and the owner is open to change, we can achieve great things in mere months.
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