Stay Small...
Whoosh.
I am pretty sure you work with a team of people doing incredible things together.
That's good. Change the world.
Remember the goal of each article in THIS weekly series is to help you become more productive by doing less.
Keep that stance in your mind as you read and reply to this one today.
The Problem:?We Don't Finish Anything
This week, imagine you and I finally left the pet store.
With no new pets.
Just memories of the exhausted sleeping hamster next to the hamster wheel and remaining flummoxed about, "Why would people even need all that stuff for their pet?"
ME: "Hey, how are you?"
YOU: "Our organization is doing SO MUCH stuff."
You might feel this at your core.
If you don't, you can continue reading this and remain as flummoxed about this problem as we were leaving that imaginary pet store lol.
For the rest of you...
There is so much we can unravel about that (hey, I've tried to do this for you one actionable step at a time every week with a new article here heh).
The Actionable Tip: Stay Small
Organizations seem setup to "grow" all the time.
Keep growing. Keep getting bigger. Do more. Make more. Increase [blah blah blah].
Big teams. Operational efficiencies. Constant transformations.
OK.
Even if that is the goal of your organization (someone there "owns" that goal)...
Stay Small.
What's that mean?
Ah...
Your Next Step...
Let me know in the comments below.
Please share?ONE?actionable tip about how you can "Stay Small." Bonus points for "why" you do that!
Listening to learn and engage...
Thank you.
Interim & Fractional Executive / Sales Leadership
1 年My actionable tip on how to "Stay Small" (for business owners, specifically) is to refuse private equity and venture funding for as long as possible. Grow your business through cash flow instead. I reason "why" I do that and recommend the same to others, is that when you accept outside funding in my experience, growth at all cost inevitably becomes the goal. Not smart growth. Life is much more fulfilling when you work with the smallest viable audience of folks who appreciate your work (and vice versa).