My friend Micah Davis recently inspired this post that will challenge me and surely others. Micah is a very gifted young leader, thinker and entrepreneur. Micah is currently the co-founder of Roov.com. Roov is a radical new website that serves a purpose to connect like value people. As Micah told me when I first learned of Roov, "we want to get people online to get them offline." For example, I roov and you roov and we connect via the website, find out all the others with common roovs and then we all get together and go for a sip @ sbux to discuss how we can improve the world or even jump out of an airplane together (with a parachute). NO, this is not another Facebook. It is very much different, has more human value and is Faith Based so the content of connections is more life enhancing. Sounds pretty sweet does it not?
Roov is a startup that is off to a hot race for success. The technology they use is superb, the team they have in place is a premium and investors are very much stoked. With all these realities, what do you get? BUSYNESS conducive to a startup where every next minute is more important than the last and there are not enough hours in the week or in a lifetime to get all things done. This has been the life of the Roov team for many months on end --- Until recently!
Micah made a leadership decision to cap the workweek and cap themselves. He was watching the team and himself go away from their greater purpose and the trust in their faith. "We were living for Roov, not for God!" Boom..that is a moment that drove a decision. "We say we are trusting our faith, but our actions did not reveal that." This came from his own intuition and soul tug, but that very decision created a superb culture tone very early on. They moved to work 45 hours/week versus double to more.
The challenge and call of action is to gain efficiency. This leaders decision took courage and the discipline to stay the course will take equal discipline. The decision is giving life back to the team and they will be much better, roov will be much better and the end-user will be better served.
Is there any pocket of time you can give back to your people? If Micah can do it during this very successful start-up - I am sure we all can. Start small and eventually do more if you can. These are the decisions that set a cultural tone that benefits your business and your family.
Go to Roov.com and stay tuned for it to launch in your area. You will be amazed when you get your Roov on! You Rock Micah and your people think so - they are already talking about it.
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