Compounding the issue is the fact that “your caregiver knows significantly more than you do about your newest and most-prized possession, so you are learning from an employee,” says Andrea Olshan, mom of three and CEO of her family’s real estate business, Olshan Properties. Andrea learned to deal with this imbalance by thinking of how she’d handle a similar situation at work. “In business, you have to manage people who have a specific knowledge of something that you might not—but that doesn’t make you unqualified. For instance, I manage construction people. If they tell me we need to use a
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