Blog written by Kristi Burns, Rhythm Coach
Have you reached a point in your business where your growth, while certainly exciting, has left you feeling buried under a mountain of ever-increasing demands on your time and resources?
Are the changes required to manage your growth coming faster than you feel yourself and/or your team can adapt to?
Do you no longer feel that you or your team possesses the right skill set to manage the challenges your growth has presented?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you have reached your “Ceiling of Complexity,” a common challenge experienced by rapid growth companies. Simply put, your life just got a lot more complicated than it used to be.
Some signs that you have hit your ceiling of complexity include:
When you find yourself stuck and drowning in a sea of challenges, demands, details, and tasks that you have neither the personal bandwidth to keep up with nor the resource capacity to delegate, what do you do?
You acknowledge that to maintain your growth, you have to learn to manage it. And the best way to manage complexity is to replace it with simplicity and clarity.
Start with the basics and manage growth as a process. Do not hold an event to solve issues that took years to evolve or identify.