Advice and Advisors
» Advice and Advisors, Volume 2, Issue 5, 2002
If respondent is NOT likely to talk to any one person prior to making a critical business decision.
2. Are you more likely to discuss a serious business problem or a critical decision with several people, a different person depending on the problem or decision, OR are you more likely to handle it yourself without outside input?
Response | Small employer with no business "confidante" | All small, employing businesses/Small employers | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Several people | 14 | 5 | |
2 | Different person depending on the situation | 19 | 6 | |
3 | Yourself | 64 | 22 | |
4 | Have business confidante | 65 | ||
5 | DK/Refuse | 3 | 1 | |
Total (%) | 100 | 99 | ||
N | 231 | 752 |
Notes: If a small employer is NOT likely to talk to any one person prior to making a critical business decision, 64 percent will likely make the decision on their own (Q#2). Twenty-two (22) percent of small employers are likely to make a critical business decision entirely on their own (Q#2).