What are the root causes of stress?
First is carrying the entire burden of your business on your shoulders. The strategy of “just work harder” whenever something new comes along eventually hits the hard limit of 24 hour days and seven day weeks. The greater the number and variety of things you take on yourself, the more likely you will miss the important (while being consumed handling the urgent). Second is the frustration of getting nothing finished. Employees don’t finish what you ask them to start and what they do finish isn’t what you wanted. You find yourself having to cancel projects before completion because they took too long and conditions changed. You live in constant fear that you’re not doing the right thing and waste time looking over your shoulder. Finally you can’t shake the sense that things are out of control. Your time and attention is spent fixing mistakes and playing catch-up, in part because of missed deadlines. Life has become one unpleasant surprise after another. Every organization has two princip
