LEADERSHIP
What Business Owners Are Doing Wrong
Some businesses stay at “okay” for years. The market is rarely the reason. More often it is a handful of habits the owner cannot see in himself.
Mohammed NizamCEO and Principal Consultant, Mission Means Consulting
IN BRIEF
- 01 Safe targets: aiming every year for what is certain to be achieved quietly builds a ceiling.
- 02 Late bad news: the team reports that all is well until a problem has already grown.
- 03 Pulling apart: functions blame each other and stay busy while the business stands still.
- 04 Leaning on the same two trusted people, while everyone else waits to be told what to do.
- 05 One-off fixes: new software or a month of hard effort, followed by a slow drift back to old habits.
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Test yourself against each habit: how stretching this year's target is, how early bad news reaches you, how aligned your functions are, how many people you can rely on, and whether your last change actually stuck.
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