The number one reason businesses fail?

They run out of money. Well, that one's obvious. But many business owners get blindsided by the second reason.

They focus so much on getting more business and making more money, but they never build the systems to actually

handle it. This is one of the most pivotal moments in small business. Because if you don't have

the right structure in place, growth won't fix your problems, it will only expose them. And the

very thing you prayed for will be the thing that takes you out. So today,

Entree Leadership's head coach, John Falcons, is going to break down the biggest challenges

growing businesses face and the four key areas you've got to get right if you want to scale.

Let's get into it. Let me tell you a story about a client that I worked with.

Her name was Stacy, and she had a business that was really going well. It was growing,

but there was problems. As I started to talk to her team, she only had a few key people that were

leading what was going on, and they were just running from one marketing campaign to the

next. They were pretty tired. They were pretty worn out. And the success was actually the problem.

Everybody was busy, but nobody knew what they were doing long term. And as I started to interview the

team, I could tell the team was war out too. People were just going from one thing to the next. They had no

long-term vision for what it was that they were going to accomplish, for what their part was to grow the

overall business. They were just doing what was right in front of them, and it was wearing them out.

There were some of them that were on the verge of leaving. They liked what they were doing,

but it was just wearing them out. She had done well. She had a tiger by the tail, but a tiger

was about to bite her because her team was about to leave her. She didn't realize that. She thought

everybody was just as committed as she was. And the fact of the matter was, instead of growing

the business, she was

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