What is your view of the future like? How could you establish a regular practice of researching ahead and developing insights into your perspective on what's coming?
Agencies who have matured as they grow take a different approach. Their leaders mindfully design the agency to ensure continuous evolution is baked in.
If you think of your agency as a smooth-running motorway, then there are on-ramps to bring talent into your agency, and off-ramps that talent takes to leave.
In a knowledge-based people-powered business like an agency, command-and-control type structures soon grind to a halt as the agency grows, or encounters volatility.
2021 has probably been the most intense year we've all experienced. That makes it even more important to rest over this holiday period. Hopefully you can also take some time to reflect and re-energise.
With risks of a new wave of the pandemic in the news, it's worth a reminder that entrepreneurial leaders — such as agency owners — need to master the art of having two brains running in parallel.
Agencies have key points of transformation in their lifecycle. When they reach these points they have to make big changes or they'll hit problems and fall back.