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Management gems from Richard Branson
October 3, 2008
'I don't think of work as work'
I don't think of work as work and play as play. It's all living.
I've had to create companies that I believe in 100%. These are companies I feel will make a genuine difference. Then I have to be willing to find the time myself to talk about them, promote them and market them. I don't want to spend my life doing something that I'm not proud of.
As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation. I have to be good at helping people run the individual businesses, and I have to be willing to step back. The company must be set up so it can continue without me.
If you're good with people…and you really care, genuinely care about people then I'm sure we could find a job for you at Virgin.
Image: British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, who owns the Virgin Group, plants the Union Jack in the sand in Dubai. | Photograph: Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images
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