CoronaVirus Has Made it Necessary to Rethink Work. It’s Time for a Board Meeting with Yourself.
The world has turned upside down. Here’s an idea for holding on.
By Shaunta Grimes
I’d like you to do something this week.
If you’re home, when you’re used to working. If you’ve got more free time than you’ve had in a long time. If you’re feeling lost and scared right now.
This week, I’d like to challenge you to sit down and have a board meeting. Stay with me here.
This is the time to shift your thinking. Even if you’ve never owned a business before or ever considered yourself an entrepreneur — if you’ve never been a maker or creator or tried to sell anything to anyone — the world has profoundly shifted. And if it ever shifts back to where it was, it’s going to take some time.
Maybe a good long time.
So, starting now, you’re the head of your own enterprise. Let’s call it You, Inc. And chances are pretty good that You, Inc. is either a one person operation, or possibly a small family-run business.
That means that you are:
CEO
CFO
Director of Human Resources
Head of Public Outreach
Grand Poobah of Ideas
And literally everything else in between. Plus, as you’ll see in a minute, a few things that you might not think about as business related.