Saturday Scale Series

Do you really understand how to scale a business?

Scale Is Not Growth!!!

One of the most common and costly mistakes businesses make is believing that the terms growth and scale are interchangeable.

Many businesses don't fail because they can't get traction.

They fail after they achieve it.

Early success feels like business validation.

“We’ll fix it later” is not a strategy.

One of the most common questions I hear from business owners is:

"Do I scale my business before I need to?"

What are the early warning signs of a business that has outgrown itself?

Every healthy business should be improving. Processes get better. Waste gets reduced. People learn. That is not optional -- it should be normal.

But improvement is not the same thing as scale.

When does hiring stop solving the problem?

Hiring more people is the most common response to strain in a growing business.

I know the signs ... they are:

- The work is piling up.
- Project and delivery deadlines are slipping.
- You're feeling pulled in many different directions.

Is strategic planning important to business scale?

The first real step in scaling a business isn't hiring. It isn't process improvement. It isn't technology.

It's strategy.