| Starting a income generating project is a very | | | | warning for those implicated in revenue losses. |
| challenging. It is an outcome of several ideas tried one | | | | However, the statement of caution must carry |
| after another -sometimes at ago. Several failures | | | | consequences and be made clear. Possibly, |
| prompt some proprietors to visit the spiritual world for | | | | repercussions should be written on paper and copies |
| intervention. It has taken some Ugandan businessmen | | | | given out to every member working for the firm. A |
| crazy and fierce actions like human sacrifice. Human | | | | brief summary of them can be pinned on the walls as |
| sacrifice has been more pronounced this year -with | | | | reminders. |
| the greatest proportion of victims being children. | | | | And of course, he (project owner) must review them |
| Whereas some have had project successes either by | | | | weekly or monthly -to ensure effectiveness and |
| coincidence or mere inspiration after consulting the | | | | efficiency towards the projected goal. A choice too |
| spiritual world, others have taken on proven dynamics | | | | may be made to reorient them in basic business skills |
| necessary for project success. At the beginning, it is | | | | and ethics. If it is about pressure to fulfill their career |
| nothing but a one-man project. Positively, this helps to | | | | goals, career guidance can be integrated to provide |
| minimize costs by saving what would have been | | | | them with different channels to success. While if old |
| incurred at hiring several project assistants. | | | | bad stories occur, the family member involved must be |
| But there is always a time -when the project branches | | | | firmly relieved of his or her daily business input. |
| out into different growth lines, so much that the project | | | | Usually, it is by asking him or her to go for a holiday |
| founder fails to be at all points. For the the sake of | | | | -until "certain company issues are rectified." The |
| trust, the founder will prefer hiring able family members. | | | | proprietor may not have to be exact about the kind of |
| The challenge to it, however, is that family issues often | | | | issues. Some money to take him or her through life |
| override business interests -by way of hired relatives | | | | after the current job to another one can be given. |
| siphoning from project resources to solve family | | | | This shows continued care for the worker until his or |
| financial crises. The nature of relationships will always | | | | her last step out of the company -while at the same |
| provide certain excuses for wrong business or | | | | time humbly asking him or her out to go home -as |
| management decisions. Compromise will be the order | | | | "investigations" get underway. As already noted, it is |
| the the day -regardless of how much revenues are | | | | just diplomacy at work. It will take him or her several |
| stifled and the direction the project may have turned | | | | months to learn that, indeed, the job is gone. Perhaps |
| to. | | | | until the promised phone-call for long time fails to show |
| As bankruptcy crops in, the project founder will find it | | | | up. |
| painful to attack or blame family members -which, in | | | | It will not be so long when the proprietor soon starts to |
| turn, accelerates the problem. Indeed, it would take | | | | build trust and confidence in human resource outside |
| proprietor a long time before changing the action of | | | | the family. But, even for them, they must have |
| bringing family into business for another. It becomes | | | | recommendations from renown and trustworthy |
| even worse when the founder has to a few other | | | | people in order to reduce risks due to theft and |
| assignments outside the business or project line. | | | | mismanagement. |
| To succeed beyond this level, the project owner must | | | | Whoever is brought in, given his or her desired skills, |
| rethink family continued family involvement in affairs of | | | | abilities and personality-fit, must be put on probation to |
| the firm. He or she can do this by investigating losses | | | | undergo a period of on-job training and evaluation. |
| -either by himself or someone else. However, an | | | | Such are intended to have the trainee adopt the |
| independent report would be comprehensive, most | | | | much-desired business values to pursue over a |
| interesting and highly motivating to implement. | | | | considerable period of time. This also empowers him |
| Following that, the founder can embark on key | | | | or her to make autonomous decisions pertaining to |
| adjustments -which may be; to strengthen the | | | | project or company goal -where for contentious ones, |
| monitoring and evaluation team, teach family members | | | | he or she simply seeks the proprietor's intervention or |
| basics of business-monitoring accompanied by stern | | | | advice. |