Small Business Owners “In the Trenches”

Should a small business owner get out and work “in the trenches” among the employees?  In an emergency?  Every day?
My husband works for a small engineering company with 30 employees.  The owner works on projects, pitches in when a deadline must be met or when someone is ill, and he’s been known to clean up the office after a meeting.
This sounds like a great thing – a small business owner working along with the employees. But is it?  I don’t think so.
“A business owner’s job is strategic, not tactical.” This from Michael Gerber, author of The E-Myth Revisited, my …read more