Debilitating hangovers
There are good days. When the sun shines and the customers smile and say thank you, when the code sizzles and sales dazzle, when all is…
In the beginning of things, when there’s no customers or money or staff or very much of anything, we turn our hand to everything. Even in new departments in large companies, the first people through the door tend to take actions that are way outside of their experience and job description. It’s the way of startup living.
Later, evolution takes hold and everything (you hope so, anyway) finds the fittest way of getting done.
Except the hangovers.
Like the head of development who still acts as first line support when Windows puts the shutters down. Like the head of commercial still in charge of stationery. Like the finance chief’s penny-pinching that’s undermining the superstars you’ve fought to bring on board.
Whilst everything evolves into place, cure the hangover attitudes that cause too much pain. (Hint: most likely, the biggest heads hold the most debilitating hangovers.)
Skippy strategy: Ease those hangovers
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