Working from home and actually doing a routine job are two different things entirely in the sense that, no matter how you classify interacting with personnels through the Internet or Skype, it can never be compared to facing different individuals daily with various temperament. I for one have the believe that experience is the best teacher. And that "experience" is what is lacking during phone and Internet connections and am sure some persons have a different perspective which is no surprise based our individual differences. But believe me when i tell you that there's no better ways of gaining experience than having a day to day contacts with clients and all.
This comment was the reason for this post. I believe we can't learn what's required to manage a business without actually seeing how a business or a large corporation is been managed.
True we can learn it from the internet, but before we master it, we might hurt our personal businesses so much before realizing.
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