A few months with no desk

This is an image of our new office building. We will take the entire bottom floor along with Dagger.

So, whoever said growth was always good? Oh right, yeah I said that. I say that all the time, in fact.

My mentality is, if you’re not growing, you’re dying. And if you have momentum and you stifle it in order to “catch up to the growth”, you risk losing the momentum you built up.

With growth being the hardest thing for just about every CEO I know to achieve, the risk of losing it when you have it simply isn’t an option. That said, being prepared for growth is critical. I’ve just never met anyone that said, “My business failed because we grew too fast.”

So, the downside of Dragon Army’s current growth – we almost tripled last year growing from 12 to 32 people – is that we are flat out of office space. We move into our new office in March, but we ran out of proper office space somewhere around the middle of last year.

In November of 2017, we had to initiate a hot-swapping desk option, where people work from home two days a week and in the office three days a week. It’s a bummer, but given that our new office wasn’t ready, we didn’t have many options.

And now, starting today, I no longer have a desk in the office because we needed it for other team members. I long ago announced that I’ll never have a personal office again (in 2010 in fact), but not having a desk, well that’s more extreme than even I prefer to be.

But sometimes you have to grow into your new clothes, and in this case it was an easy sacrifice to make sure our team members are impacted as little as possible with our current lack of office space situation.