Eric's story

- Name's Eric, I run a firm here in the San Francisco Bay Area. We facilitate meetings for a living, so large and small. We do large off-sites. We do small executive team meetings. The common denominator is there's usually some sort of big change happening in the business and we use the power of facilitated meetings to make that change happen. Two partners, we're very happy with how things gone. Great clients, we've got some contractors working for us. I think we want to grow and take things to the next level and so that's going to require us doing things that we don't really know how to do. It's funny when we have commitments about serving clients, we do that well. When it comes to new business development, we do that well. This type of stuff is almost like, my confidence that this stuff's actually going to happen is kind of low. We talk about it a lot. Just you know part of it is the urgent trumps the important and part of it is actually maybe even, maybe there's things that we're not fully aligned on, so the easiest thing to do is just focus on client work. I have some fears that he's not good at kind of being organized and structured, so things like this just tend to just not happen. There's I think overall just like a fear that it's just not going to happen, it's just going to be empty talk. It's one thing for us to feel really good about ourselves, but at the end of the day we want to be more than just two dudes keeping ourselves busy, we want to actually build a firm that has some lasting value.