You must really want to talk to someone to go to all that trouble.

When we finally allowed ourselves to step away from our business to get a vacation we decided we could trust our employees to make the right decisions. If we couldn't trust them to make decisions then we had the wrong employees.

So the message we left the employees with was to do what they thought best, and do the best they could. We did not want any phone calls unless it was an emergency, and we told them that an emergency was something we needed to be involved with. If the factory was burning down it was not an emergency because there was nothing we could do while we were gone.

We did not get any phone calls on our vacations and during our absence our employees did a great job.

Even when we got cell phones we often left it turned off until we wanted to call someone. I am constantly amazed at people who are away from home and business who spend most of their time on the phone dealing with business issues. They either have bad employees or they don't trust them or they haven't learned how to delegate. We still forget to turn our cell phones on most days.