My best questions come after the meeting is over and I am scared it’s costing my startup
I had a discovery meeting today and once again, the best follow up questions came to me after the meeting had ended. I have clinically diagnosed ADHD.
When someone describes a complex business problem, my brain doesn’t always produce an immediate, neatly structured follow up question.
Instead, it starts processing everything at once. The business model ,people involved workflow , dependencies, technology, list goes on and how it connect and the perfectionism joins the conversation.
I mentally explore multiple possibilities, revisit the problem from different angles, and try to understand the complete system before I speak.That depth is one of my strengths.But in a fast moving sales or discovery meeting, it is a limitation.
Sometimes I need more processing time. Sometimes the most important clarification occurs to me an hour later. That increases the turnaround time between understanding the problem, shaping the opportunity, and moving the engagement forward. But once I truly understand the problem, I know what my team and I can do.I have spent 20+ years working around business critical enterprise systems.
Today, I am building a business Transformation Agency. We know how to study complex operations, find the friction, and transform it into something more intelligent, reliable, and measurable.
Now I am considering adding someone who complements the way my brain works someone who can listen carefully during discovery meetings, ask sharp follow up questions in real time, structure what we hear, and help us shorten the path from conversation to action.
To create a better founder led sales system around me. For founders with ADHD. Have you faced this?
What kind of person, role, or meeting structure helped you turn deep thinking into faster decisions?