Since Spring Insight is young and nimble, we aren’t bound by too many contracts but I remember the feeling of having made long-term commitments both to provide and consume products and services. There is something both terrifying and exhilarating about completely absolving one’s self or one’s business from all prior contracts. Imagine waking up and not being bound to pay for, or receive the services you were contracted for the day prior… not being bound to provide the services you were responsible to provide yesterday. Does this seem to me to feasible, or even desirable? No, not really. But is there something in there that is worth considering? I think so. Having all contracts evaporate once a year… bad. Not taking contracts and commitments for granted but instead actively thinking about whether those agreements you have previously made still fit properly… very good.
So, why not declare a Yom Kippur for your business? Think about your contracted services, your fixed costs, the contracts you have to do work for others. Do they continue to make sense or is it time to absolve them?
~e