
Don’t let your superpower become your kryptonite!
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Are you a small business founder/CEO...
- Struggling to get everyone rowing the boat in the same direction
- Bleeding cash?
- Falling short on delivery commitments to key customers and business partners?
- Repeating the same mistakes over and over again?
- Understaffed and feeling too busy to onboard new talent?
- Losing key personnel over the long haul?
- Unable to reliably forecast revenue, profitability, or resource utilization?
- Fearful when the Board or investors ask to “see the numbers?”
- Unclear what the harvesting strategy / liquidity event horizon looks like?
- No closer to handing over the reins to an apt successor than 5, 10 or 20 years ago?
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Well, you are NOT alone...
In fact, every entrepreneur possesses at least one superpower: shoot-from-the-hip bias towards action, grit, perseverance or self-confidence. These work well…up to a point. But “any strength, overplayed, can become a weakness.” What was once a superpower turns into kryptonite, impeding the venture’s future growth and stability.
Every business reaches a point when the need for structure and systems becomes critical, and managing the company in a different manner becomes essential.
This is where I come in…