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" Dear E. Jean:  My new hire is my husband\u2014and it may be the biggest mistake of my career. Over the past few years, with incredibly hard work, I&amp;#039;ve managed to create a very popular website with a huge fan base. It&amp;#039;s been so successful that my husband was able to quit his job and join me in the business\u2014always a dream of mine! But the man is a workaholic. He&amp;#039;s overwhelming me with his great ideas, which he says will cause &amp;quot;our income to soar,&amp;quot; and which I have no time to implement because I have to take care of all the day-to-day unglamorous tasks that go into running a site. He finds these tasks &amp;quot;too boring,&amp;quot; and this brings me to our latest challenge. All he wants to do is work on the site\u2014talk about it all day, brainstorm ideas all night, design new features, launch new revenue streams, etc. We can&amp;#039;t even have a romantic dinner without him thinking up new things we should do next. It&amp;#039;s exhausting! I&amp;#039;d like to relax one night! He won&amp;#039;t even let us squeeze in a day off! What do I do? Fire him? Or be the boss and tell him what to do? How do I regain control? We&amp;#039;ve been married 10 years and usually work well as a team, but my dream is turning into a nightmare.\u2014He&amp;#039;d Look Good in a Pink Slip Miss Slip, My Sweet:  Come on. Pardon me, but are you kidding Auntie Eeee? You have a male miracle there, a man with &amp;quot;great ideas,&amp;quot; a guy practically down on his knees begging to help your income &amp;quot;soar&amp;quot;\u2014and you want to fire him? I realize the website is your baby and it&amp;#039;s difficult to accept new ideas because your first idea has been so successful\u2014but Miss Slip, really! With websites, it&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Adapt or die.&amp;quot; Your goal shouldn&amp;#039;t be to control him. It should be to turn him loose to make as much money as he can. This is why he gets up in the morning. Hire a whiz kid from your local technical college to come in and do the &amp;quot;boring&amp;quot; tasks, and join your gent for some daily innovation. And the nights? Explain to him that taking the evenings off and not grinding over the site will generate breakthroughs. (Archimedes didn&amp;#039;t shout &amp;quot;Eureka!&amp;quot; because he was brainstorming measurement precision. He was stepping into his bath, not thinking of it.) With all the fresh money coming in, you can hire more people and free yourselves up for a month-long vacation in Greece. P.S. If you don&amp;#039;t want him, FedEx Mr. New Features to me. I&amp;#039;ll give him the latest Mac, set him up in my kitchen, ply him with New Guinea coffee, and we&amp;#039;ll make billions. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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