Overthinking things

Sophia is gone for the rest of the week and weekend so I’ve rolling solo. I expect a lot of football and golf. It’s supposed to be 80 degrees between now and Sunday so I told Sophia that San Francisco apparently likes it when she leaves.

One thing I’ve really emphasized with my team is to stop overthinking things. At one point, Secfi got so big with so many decision makers that things started moving slower and slower. We’re now past that phase and I’ve really tried to push everyone to get back into that startup thinking.

The majority of discussions or decisions that made day to day have marginal, if any, impact on the outcome. Quite often, that 30 minute discussion on how to word a marketing email just is not worth it.

There’s a lot going on at Secfi and we need to move quicker. Eliminating paralysis by analysis is the first step.