“In short, businesses that ‘get small again’ die. They literally implode upon themselves. “Not right away, necessarily. But over time they die. Atrophy and die. They can’t do anything else. “And the result of that is enormous disappointment, lost investment, shattered lives, not only the owner’s but those of the employees, the families of both the

See if you can identify with any of these issues: Results are less than the combined talent should be producing. Negative thinking and negative outlooks take root, and people sound like “victims” of the economy, the market, or someone else’s actions. One or two people have too much power on a team or in a department, which allows dysfunction to see