Cynthia L. Umphrey by Cynthia L. Umphrey Are you a control freak? If you’re an entrepreneur, I bet you are, at least a bit. I know I am, at least a bit. My experience with the pain and pleasure of letting go comes from three sources. As a full time lawyer at Kemp Klein Law Firm since 1997 with mainly entrepreneurs as clients, I gained internal and external experience. As a co-owner of The Learning Experience of South Lyon, a child development center with over 200 children that opened in 2007, and co-owner of Sixluxe LLC, started in 2010 designing revolutionary women’s clothes for day wear and travel, I gained pure, internal, hands-on experience. My experiences indicate that control solutions are situation specific. But I believe there are a few constants. My Core Constant: If you cannot give up control properly, your business will not reach its full potential. You cannot possibly be the best person for everything. This is WHY you give up some control....
