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There are so many CEOs and entrepreneurs who take the “I can do everything myself” approach, without realizing the hidden cost of this strategy.  What is that hidden cost?  Well, time, money, planning ability, brainpower, and burnout. If you are building a company based on your skills alone, you are…

As a business owner, you understand your products and services inside and out. This makes you a natural salesperson, but it also can make it difficult to transfer your sales processes to someone else, because all of the specialized knowledge lives in your head. And that can stall expansion and…

There is a version of business growth that looks great on paper. Your team is expanding while income is climbing. And yet somehow, at the end of every quarter, the numbers don't quite reflect all that activity. Margins are thinner than expected. The owner is working eighty-hour weeks. Something is…

Micromanagement can sneak into any management style. You want your employees to perform well, and you want to understand inconsistencies. The instinctual (and wrong) way to build this understanding is to hover. To constantly check in, want to review all work personally, and insert yourself into decisions that should be…

Increasing headcount is often a key part of growing revenue. After all, more clients need more employees to help them. And, of course, increasing hiring rates costs more money, so revenue growth is often tied to payroll growth. However, hiring and onboarding is expensive, time-consuming, and risky. Onboarding one new…

When an opportunity to grow comes banging down your business’s door, you can either heed the call or start shrinking. Most business owners want to heed that call and start scaling and growing. So, they open another location, hire staff, or take on a flood of new clients. Then the…

Growth rarely stops all at once, but at some point, most businesses hit an invisible ceiling that slows or stalls their growth. This could look like deals taking longer to close, new hires taking longer to ramp up, or the owner getting pulled into problems. The business is still operating,…

Most business owners get into entrepreneurship to find freedom. The freedom to set their own schedule, build something meaningful, and eventually step back from the daily grind. Yet somewhere along the way, many find themselves more trapped than ever, deep in operational details, answering the same questions repeatedly, and unable…

If you feel like you spend more time putting out fires in your company than actually running your business, you are not alone. Many business owners reach a point where their company feels like it is running them instead of the other way around. The days are reactive. The to-do…

You have business systems. You’ve documented standard operating procedures (SOPs), policies, and processes and rolled them out to your team. Now that all of that work has been done, the team should hop to it and integrate those procedures into their everyday work, right? Often, the answer to that is,…