The invisible work

If you’re a CEO, entrepreneur, owner of a small/medium business, or lead a team in some other capacity, and care about the people you work with, chances are you spend a good portion of your time removing obstacles, solving problems and generally making work smoother for others.
Things like:
✓ not hiring (or swiftly removing) the gal/guy who might perform, but makes a terrible culture fit.

✓ putting thought, time & energy in clearly articulating where we’re headed and why.

✓ securing funds before we have a cash flow run-way issue.

✓ figuring out when to schedule meetings / check-ins so they’re not in the middle of a productive work spur, on different time zones.

✓ building the team habits, systems and policies that strike a good balance between too much and too little collaboration.

✓ deciding when it’s best to use sync and async communication, so the team doesn’t feel overwhelmed nor disconnected.

✓ picking (and tinkering with) the tools that allow others to do their best work while having as few tensions as possible.

People always appreciate problems they struggled with for a while being solved. But they might not easily see the work that went in to tackle issues in their infancy, or even prevent them all together.
To all the invisible work, and to all the problems & screw-ups that never were!