Friday, January 22, 2010

Fear of change and differences of vision

We have recently added to our team a tech expert and a social networking specialist.  This lets us give a whole new array of services to our clients.  Due to all of these recent changes one of the issues we have had to deal with is how do we recreate ourselves.  This is an issue any small company moving to the next level must deal with.  Recreating the company in terms of responsibilities and delegation of tasks, our image, our services and who we feel we are.  This is something that will have a major impact on the future of the company.
Listening to everyone's ideas is one of the most interesting aspects of this process.  Each individual sees a different image in regards to the future and the goal isn't to compromise what each person wants and to find a middle ground.  Rather I believe the goal is to take what each person sees and to use it to make one bigger picture equaling more than just the sum of its parts.
I am happy we are at this stage yet it is also terrifying.  Fear of the unknown.  Fear of letting go.  But the important thing is to remind ourselves that if we have carefully thought out the situation then the fear can be used to motivate us forward rather than to hold us back.
It also reminds us that the fact that we have to deal with this fear means that we are making progress.

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