What happens when you grow? There's an assumption that every business wants to grow because growth means making more money. Bigger companies make more money, that's what we all think, right? But it's not always true. In fact, sometimes, the people who are really pocketing the most money at the end of the year are the people who don't have the biggest businesses. What really matters is how much profit you get to keep Isn't it how much money that goes into your pocket that real

In our previous article we talked about how many businesses get stuck in the Start-Up Scramble and ways they can get unstuck. This article is for the businesses that have moved beyond that initial phase and have hit the next ceiling. One thing to understand about growing a business that doesn’t get talked about in business school or even much in the real world because people don’t realize it unless they’ve experienced it, is that there is always another ceiling. While the fir

Does this sound like you? You’ve worked in your profession for a while and learned the ropes, and now you decide to go out on your own. You have some idea what you're doing, but you don't really know the full scope of what it takes to run your own company. You probably have no real processes in place, haven’t developed a real customer list yet, and you wind up scrambling like crazy and trying anything with promise to get your enterprise off the ground. This phase of your busi