| You have a happy problem, though it is hard to believe in your current state of mind. You also have created something that you didn't know you didn't want. For the organization, the time for sprinting is over, and time setting up the organization for the routine of the marathon has arrived. For you, take a vacation of a day today.
And another day.
Rest.
And think about your life. For the organization:
Time to reject some clients, in order to: 1) reduce the queue of work 2) give the whole team a sensible work life 3) have a sensible company culture that allows everyone to have a life, health, relationships and leisure. 4) the leader is the example of health and culture. Lead and do, and promote better health for everyone 5) be able to properly delegate (and have people to delegate to), to your second-, third-, and fourth-in-command, who each have enough slack to take on managing the way you have been until now. patio11 helpfully describes one classic consultant method to reduce your queue of work, while sustaining the company: raising client prices / rates. Another is to select your jobs and clients. What do you really want to do and work on? Manage your collective work life. Raise the rates right now 50% for the next new client, and warn old clients the rates are going up in three to six months. Result: 1) sufficient income to support what actually is required to be done to serve the clients and to serve you, the workers 2) reduced work-queue 3) better quality clients that understand the value of you and the company's work 4) enough income to fully staff and support all of the work, and to support your staff too 5) enough slack on the part of the staff to think ahead, and not work only in crisis & panic mode 6) plus work-environment improvements that include vacations and similar recognition of work-life balance that acknowledges demands of your labor on each of your lives. |