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What’s the core work of your business? Have you let important matters get in the way of the single most critical matter?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Jarvis warns business leaders about the pitfalls of growth. While growth can be an important aspect of business success, the most important priority is too often sacrificed on its altar. Growth creates many complications that you can and should deal with, but you mustn’t let it chip away at the core.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more to understand how growth can make it difficult for you to tend to your top business priority in the way you should.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Maintain Your #1 Business Priority<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

According to Jarvis, growth brings inevitable complications for a business.<\/strong> When traditional companies grow and scale, they have to spend more money and hire more employees<\/a>. This requires a more robust infrastructure, so these companies must invest in new systems that further complicate and slow down work processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, video game company Zynga spent $100 million on building their own data centers<\/a> after achieving success with their free game downloads. This became a financial burden for the company as they struggled to keep up with innovations in the video game industry, eventually forcing them to lay off a large number of employees and close the data centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re the owner of a company that\u2019s constantly growing, you\u2019ll likely spend more time managing the increasingly complex infrastructure than tending to your top business priority: the core work<\/strong>\u2014creating or designing a product or service. That core work is the reason you wanted to start the business\u2014a reason that\u2019s unrelated to money. So, managing growth takes you away from your original purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Complications From Large Businesses Affect Company Culture<\/a><\/strong>

Some experts agree that the complications that come from a large company aren\u2019t worth the trouble. In addition to the added expenses and stagnation of work because of bureaucratic processes, company culture often takes a hit. Large companies may run into the following issues in maintaining a healthy culture:<\/a> 

Issue #1:<\/strong> To manage the large staff and infrastructure, the company culture often has to be highly formal, and employees may feel less motivated if their days are filled with procedures they must follow. 

Issue #2:<\/strong> A large corporate infrastructure means that employees typically work only within a narrow area of expertise. They don\u2019t often get to work outside their role and may get bored. 

Issue #3:<\/strong> Frequently, the larger a company is, the less friendly and human-centric the atmosphere is, so employees may feel disconnected or underappreciated. 

Issue #4: <\/strong>There are more opportunities for conflict within the organization since managers and directors are often the ones making day-to-day decisions instead of the owners. Owners of large companies don\u2019t typically run day-to-day operations or manage the core work that sparked the business (as Jarvis points out). However, they likely still have strong opinions about how the work should be done that may conflict with the choices that high-level employees make. For example, the owner might take issue with decisions managers make that move away from the company\u2019s original purpose. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Example: Losing Sight of the Core Work<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s look at an example of how managing a large company might prevent you from focusing on the core work. Say you run a business that offers book therapy: curated selections of books based on the users\u2019 current mental health needs. Initially, you personally read each user\u2019s profile and create their book selection. This is the core work, and it serves your original purpose for starting the business: to improve people\u2019s lives using the psychological and emotional benefits of reading<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, as the business grows, you have to hire employees to take on some of this work, and now you spend more time managing them along with the greater vision and day-to-day operations of the company. You spend less time selecting books and communicating with customers. As interest in your service keeps increasing, you develop an algorithm that automatically creates book selections based on customer needs, eliminating personalized, human involvement. Eventually, you spend all your time on tasks that are unrelated to the core work of book curation and the original purpose of helping people. Instead, you\u2019re primarily focused on keeping the company going and increasing profits every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to Determine Your Company\u2019s Core Focus<\/strong>

In Traction<\/em><\/a>, Gino Wickman further explores the concept of a company\u2019s core focus (which encompasses the core work and original purpose that Jarvis describes). Wickman identifies a core focus as the job your company excels at and the thing you should be putting your time and resources into.<\/a> Wickman argues that if you concentrate your company\u2019s efforts on its core focus, you\u2019ll see increased success and profits because you\u2019re building on what you do best.

A core focus includes your company\u2019s reason for existing (its original purpose) and its niche (its core work). According to Wickman, you should be able to explain your company\u2019s reason for existing in no more than seven words. It should be simple and bold, resonate emotionally, involve everyone in the company, be separate from money, and be broader than a goal.

Your niche is the work you specifically do that fulfills the mission you outline. The description of this should be simple and useful for making decisions about how to spend time and resources.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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