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As someone who runs a business with a co-founder, we both are constantly making trade offs. How do we move quickly while remaining stable? How do increase our f
by wjossey 8y ago
As someone who runs a business with a co-founder, we both are constantly making trade offs. How do we move quickly while remaining stable? How do increase our featureset without getting over our skis? How do we grow our business quickly, but not take on the wrong customers?
Incentives can win, and should win, on both sides of the equation at different moments in time. The most mature organizations can feel the pain from one direction or another, and adjust accordingly.
- anon49124 8y agoShortcuts are great when survival time is bought. This can turn into a self-defeating problem when there is extreme habituation to recurrently and disproportionately sacrificing effort, cost and/or burdens on others in future for the now such that the shortcut wastes vastly more net time and money than it could've ever saved. I've seen founders shoot themselves in both feet and unable to move fast, or anywhere, because they knowingly stuck themselves with keeping 50 plates spinning while trying to swim through quicksand... especially solitary founders because they lack the check and balance of a second or third founder to keep them honest with reality and on-track.