When a business isn’t growing as fast as its owner would like, the impulse is usually to buckle down, apply the nose more firmly to the grindstone, and work harder.
Makes sense. Hard work is the reason you’ve gotten as far as you have. The past is prologue. Hard work then, hard work now, hard work forever.
But will it actually help? Because here’s the rub. When your head’s down and your nose is on the grindstone, your vision isn’t exactly panoramic. You see what’s right in front of you, and that’s it. Growth doesn’t come from nearsighted (but busy!) activity; it comes from looking ahead, seeing the forest and paying less attention, for a time, to the trees.
What would actually help your firm grow, then? Counter-intuitive though it might seem, it’s this: slowing down. Taking a beat to stop and assess where you and your teams are directing your energy and measure those efforts against your long-term goals.
The Covey quadrants can be useful here. How much time and attention should each of your players be directing to each task in order for the firm to grow? What do you need to do to get to that optimized state of productivity?
If outsourcing some of your firm’s workload makes sense, put the wheels in motion to make that happen. With the right outsource partner, this won’t take much—that is, it won’t become yet another of those nuisance tasks you never seem to find time to accomplish.
The ideal outsource partner is going to save you time right from the jump, with highly educated, well-trained, experienced, and fully onboarded business valuation experts who can step right in and get to work. These partners do exist. We know, because we’ve built one!
We can help by connecting you with business valuation workers who can handle many of the tasks you’re currently laboring to complete yourself.