Starting and running your own business is many times propelled by urgency and emergency. You and your team are fueled by adrenaline and want to get “there” fast.
“There” is where you have set your targets, in terms of the number of clients or the amount of revenue you decided to generate.
“Working in emergency mode” helps to overcome fear, build momentum, and grow the positives within your business by setting a “getting it done” attitude.
Doing what it takes to climb the next steps is good. However, many times we fail to acknowledge, and care enough to explore, what is right.
It might be okay in the early days of your business to ignore what is right since you may not clearly understand what right is.
With all the urgency and rush, we don’t have time to necessarily do what is right.
So, what exactly is right?
The answer to that might vary dramatically for different businesses. However, here are some questions to help you figure out whether you are “in the right”:
- Do you realize that continually working with urgency, slowly creeps in as a trait of your business?
- Do you necessarily see only what is relevant for your business at that point in time?
- Are you doing what is good for the long term, in regards to your business?
- Are you focusing on quick business, or continued business relationships?
- Are you building a disposable team or an indispensable team?
Working in emergency mode makes you impervious to these ideas. So, it is important to draw the line on when, how, and which sections of your business will stop working in emergency mode.
If you don’t know when and how to stop working in emergency mode, chances are you’ll keep working in that mode forever. Working in emergency mode will drain you and your team, causing quicker burnout rates . . . thus making it impossible to maintain work-life balance.
The benefit of slowly building a business, drip by drip by drip, is the single most overlooked element in today’s fast-changing world.
Studying and understanding which areas of your business need to be built slowly, drip by drip by drip, and which areas need to remain working in emergency mode can be truly advantageous in building a business of significance, relevance, and of overall purpose.