When running a fast-growing company, with all the execution demands and details involved, it is hard to take the time to be creative
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A few months ago, I wrote about the ridiculous increase in velocity that we are seeing in the venture capital market in my post, Velocity and Venture Capital: 11. Now that summer is upon us, I want to reflect on the subtle value of slowing down, particularly from the standpoint of an entrepreneur.
Summer has always been a time to take a breath and slow down. Now that the United States is entering a post-pandemic phase, we have yet another reason to take things a bit slower and stop obsessing about efficiency and speed. One of my more popular tweets during the last year was:
“ Make the effort to meet up face to face, spend unscheduled long stretches of time, and (gasp) just hang out.
[This article was provided with permission from Harvard Business School Working Knowledge.]