Jack Welch thought

I have adapted the following thought from an interview with Jack Welch, retired CEO of General Electric.

As an entrepreneur, early on the majority of your job function might be technical. At this point it is about you creating and serving different roles to make things work. But as soon as you hire a team and are a manager of people, it is imperative to recognize that your work is about the people you manage. In a growing start-up, you must smoothly transition yourself from a technical or do-it-all role, to focusing significant energy on building the people in your team, rewarding the performers and creating / maintaing candor in your firm's culture.

The interview with Welch is phenomenal, go to http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/audiovideo.html and find it towards the bottom of the page.