The Best Way To Grow Your Business

By Brad Schow, COO, HTG Peer Groups

The best way to grow your business is to grow your leaders.

All of you choose every day what you will spend your time on in your business. Tactical issues, sales, service tickets, and projects all come to mind. These types of activities are the basic blocking and tackling that have to be done well for a business to succeed. Functional growth, however, takes more than just executing tasks. It takes leadership beyond just you.   

We work with many entrepreneurs. All too often the story regarding these leaders goes like this:

Talented, opportunistic leaders set out to build a company with their own blood, sweat, and tears. Their efforts bear fruit, and they find some success — so much success that eventually they need some help. They hire an employee or two to take some of the work off of their plates. They tell the employees what to do and how to do it. They experience a little more success and hire another employee or two. Again, they tell these new employees what to do and how to do it.

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