Urgency

Podia is a small-but-mighty team, and to be competitive with larger companies in our market, we need to have a sense of urgency with everything we do.

It’s a competitive advantage for us to not only make quick decisions, but also to act on them fast without getting bogged down in over-thinking and end up in “what if” land. This risk aversion naturally creeps into large companies as they grow over time, and it’s poison. 

As a small company, if your people can take action even twice as fast as your competitors, you can get a lot more done than they can. Even if the actual work you do takes longer because of your resource constraints, having a sense of urgency will lead you to doing more throughout the year.

I’ve rarely seen a company regret moving quickly on something, but even if it does happen, having an extreme sense of urgency will let you correct yourself faster than others, too.

Never will I ever regret moving fast, but I will always feel awful if we’re moving slow because we’re giving up one of the core advantages of being a small team.

Getting some things wrong is a tax on moving quickly, but I’ll gladly pay it every time to end up so far ahead.