v0.3: Organization, Process Management, and People Development
My role is changing and changing quite fast from working in the business to working on the business. I don’t think I thought I would be in this position and it shows. I am a bit inexperienced in this particular arena of organization, process management, and people development. Ironically, these are the areas that I need to work on the most for the growth not just in terms of professional but also in terms of personal life.
Whatever I do whether family, spirituality, or work these three skills are a big part of the challenge. As Swami Vivekananda says, “the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.” So my core focus is around these three things with the goal of delegating most everything else.
As a small business owner it is important to know all sides of the business but it is more important to setup the processes for things to happen repeatably. The repeatability reduces stress and allows you to have predictable outcomes.
As part of this learning my goal is to really dial in my focus:
- How to design organizations.
- How to design for knowledge accumulation.
- How to setup good standard procedures.
- How to ensure the standard procedures are working on the right thing.
- How to hire well.
- How to train a team.
These are all questions that I want to learn better and then immediately put into practice. Further, as I have different types of companies I am working on each type of company has a different perspective.
As part of this I will be reading a few types of books:
- Biographies of Great Leaders
- Understand Organization of Great Companies
- Understanding Effective Project Management
- Effective Hiring, Training and Delegation