SCENARIO #1: Your company is scaling up at the speed of light and you start to become the main chokehold. All decisions are on you.

Maybe your leadership is not your strongest suit?

Maybe you lack the knowledge, experience or presence in this area, and your company starts to suffer?

Maybe your culture is accidental or just not strong enough to take on the challenges that the market presents?

And you don't even have time to think as you keep being pulled into the day-to-day tactical issues?

You may realise that your team is not strong enough to handle the growth that you envision.

You might start to understand that hiring employees is different than hiring leaders and it's the leaders that you need right now.

And this is why you may have no leadership layer since you don't really know how to hire the leaders.

And even if you hired them, maybe you don't know how to develop them and inspire them?

Or maybe you struggle to delegate to the leaders you hired and keep running the show?

As a result, you might never be sure if your people will stay or leave for something better?

SCENARIO #2: You have been a CEO for many years and have seen it all.

You are experienced and you start to think of an exit.

However you might experience a slow down in the business and there is just not as much growth as there used to be.

Your EBITDA doesn't look that promising.

On top of that you are feeling the lack of inspiration, since you've been dealing with the same problems over and over again, for years and years.

Your energy is stagnant.

How are you going to exit if you don't have that much energy?

Maybe the lifecycle of your company is showing that your company is slowly dying?

What if you don't reignite the fire and create a new wave of growth?

What kind of exit will be possible for you then?

How will it feel, working all these years, and not being able to reap the fruits of your hard work?

On top of that, maybe you don't have a good leadership team in place.

Maybe they are too junior to truly step up.

And without a strong leadership team, no investor will be interested to buy your company.

Or maybe the current price is just not good enough and you are hoping that it will improve.

Maybe you don't have an investor or a buyer yet because you're simply not prepared for it.

SCENARIO #3: You own a family company and need to prepare for succession.

Maybe your leadership team is not that strong or combined of the family members with family dynamics.

Maybe you don't even have a next of kin to take over?

Or maybe your son or daughter are not prepared to step up?

Or maybe there is a conflict between the siblings and you don't know how to solve it?

You would love to leave a legacy but you just don't see the path forward.

Maybe your successor is not mentally, emotionally or business ready.

And in the meantime your company starts to slow down.

The sales numbers become lower and lower, and there are signs of cash flow problems.

Whichever direction you look, things seem to get worse.

You blame the market, you blame the covid, you blame the war...

You feel disempowered.

And because you are still the sole decision maker, you are getting tired of carrying the burden.

You don't really know what to do, you don't have a clear vision or strategy, and you don't see a path forward.

Your leadership is not strong enough to lead and develop those who work for you.

And even if you could do it all, you don't have the time because the day-to-day issues always end up on your desk.

You keep fire fighting and getting involved in the tasks at hand.

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Whether you are in situation 1, 2, or 3, you know that things are not looking good.

What do you think will happen if you don't make a drastic change?

How will it impact your business, your clients, your employees, and your life?

Think and feel for a moment about where your energy is right now...

Do you think it will get higher or lower?

Lower!

If you don't change something around you or within you, it will get worse. Much worse.

What will happen to you in 3 years from now if you don't shift something?

In three years from today you will end up somewhere...the question is "where?"

Are you going to let it happen or will you take charge of your destiny?