A lot of the things you do are probably completely irrelevant to the outcomes you are chasing. You may find yourself creating forms and processes for yourself and your employees that are based on what you learned in previous employment.
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| Are you carrying an unnecessary burden? |
There is an assumption of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
Business is about putting in the least effort for the desired outcome – the buy low sell high strategy.
During the growth phase of a business procedures and policies are made up on the fly. They are modified where they don’t work, but generally speaking they are effective. When a company is established the existing procedures somehow become sacred – not to be questioned.
New policies and procedures are added based on experience, and sometimes from bored employees with little else to do. A philosophy of making everything a procedure can take over, and from then on the relationship between procedure and what the business actually does becomes more and more remote.
Now that you have your own company have a good think about the outcomes you are trying to achieve and the behaviours you are trying to encourage. How can you do that without becoming building a large bureaucracy?
Jettison the unneeded processes and those things which create paperwork but are unnecessary. You can make your life and that of your employees a lot better.
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