By Arlene Dickinson, CEO at Venturepark, Canada
When you are a start up and have ten major problems to solve the answer isn’t to try and solve everything at once. Even though they are ALL important you have to tackle them in bite sized efforts. If you don’t, it’s overwhelming and, what little you are able to do across all the problems tackling them at once, is highly ineffective.
Here’s some tips:
1. Prioritize. There’s always something most important in that list to tackle first
2. Ask for help and input from those around you
3. Don’t try and swim across the ocean, just keep yourself afloat until the storm passes and you can get long term help and develop long term solutions. Remember, you’re in survival mode so now is not the time to build a house - now is the time to construct the lean-to. You can build the house once the storm passes.
4. Keep your customers happy and your team apprised and engaged.
5. Develop a huge sense of urgency. You won’t get everything right when in crisis mode but you must move with speed and determination.
Everyone solves better, together.
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