Avoiding a Fear State During Startup Team Transition

an individual contributor look like? I will first tell you what it doesn’t look like—taking culture change on single-handedly. You will get too emotionally involved and burnt out. Start small with these few specific actions: •Channel your passion into asking for new culture structures instead of dwelling on old structures. •Start a culture task for

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That last comment got everyone's attention. “That's right. I want to say right up front that DecisionTech is going to experience some changes during the next few months, and it is very possible that some of us here won't find the new company to be the kind of place where we want to be. That isn't a threat or a dramatic device, and I don't have anyo

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Another emotion I picked up in myself and in others is what feels like we’re floating in space a bit. Since the change is so fundamental and a lot of things aren’t figured out, it’s quite hard to navigate yourself within Buffer currently, since nothing feels “fixed” and ever changing these last few months.

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As a result, I developed a capacity to make decisions not as a reaction to certain emotions, trying to make them go away, but instead to make decisions together with my emotions, understanding that they would always be with me on my journey. I found such power in this reframe. If fear is always a companion, it is futile to push it away. If uncertai

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