Choose personal aides with enormous care. You may spend more time with your PA, your chauffeur or your business manager than with your husband, wife or lover. Or even, sadly, than with your children. If a personal aide is not working out, then fire him or her just as soon as you know. But be very generous when you do so. Tell them it’s your fault – it probably is. Close aides like these can become your friends, and usually do, over time. That’s understandable. But try to keep a little distance ‘just in case’. Ensure they are employed under a very different contract than employees of your
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