Pivot Your Business Like Slack Did

It could help your company AND your family

Kevin Bell
ILLUMINATION

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Photo by Amber Faust on Unsplash

I was sitting at my desk at work, with a thousand yard stare into my computer.

You know that look when someone is looking at something but not actually looking at something. That’s the thousand yard stare.

I had just had the realization that the business model we had poured so much time, energy and money into, was not the model we needed to use.

It was on a Monday morning that this became extremely clear to me.

I was standing in the middle of a park that I had just driven 45 min to with two extremely excited little girls ready to play and make memories with their dad… and I was no more 25% present during that whole time.

I was putting out fires and bending over backwards for a client that had yet to pay anything and was being extremely high maintenance.

I had even told my team before hand that I couldn’t make the Zoom meeting…

But there I was on my phone walking around the park to find the best service, while talking loud enough yo be heard over the giggles of joy in the background from the kids at the park. Two of them being mine… I hoped…

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Kevin Bell
ILLUMINATION

I write about entrepreneurship, parenting and how to navigate "the grind" while you're still in it. I share how to do it all while working a 9-5.