How many times have a lot of us seen this very same thing happen.
Someone puts all their effort into creating a system that makes a business work well, then sells that business.
The new owner/s know better than the previous owner and decide to do things "their way"
Before you know it, that business is not worth anything.
Case in point, a different type of business, but it happens in all businesses.
My all time favourite fish chip shop where we had been going for at least five years was sold about 6 months ago.
Prior to this, there were always cars parked out front, and people in the shop.
This place buzzed continually.
Most people would phone their orders through rather than have to wait 20 - 30 minutes, that how good this place was.
Now, since the new owners changed the recipes, added more variety and a new range of food, the place is like it's deserted.
I went back 3 times hoping they would fix the problems and go back to the original way of cooking, now I don't even bother going there.
I have seen the same happen in the cleaning supply section where a business is sold and the new owners know better than the last owner.
Sales drop due to their indifference to customers, their attitude and a host of other reasons.
If a person sells a business in all good faith, and that business is performing well, it's no good blaming the previous owner for any problems that happen down the track, especially due to their own incompetence or the fact that they changed a proven system.
PS ::: We used to have a saying down under that went something like this..........
How do you make a very successful business go bankrupt ????????
Sell it to a Kiwi and let him take it from there.
Not that
I, would ever say anything like that, especially with "friends" like...
John
&
Ekka
&
Roro
& all those other big blokes that I'm bound to run into at some time in the near future, such as the cold ghost in April
