When I watch founders try to scale their companies, one thing becomes really clear: surviving failure is one thing, but handling growth successfully is a completely different challenge. Growth doesn’t just test your business, it tests you as a leader . The decisions you made when the company was small won’t work anymore, and the skills that got you here might actually hold you back. In this blog, I want to unpack why growth exposes leadership weaknesses and what it takes to l

Scaling a business is messy. Really messy. And sooner or later, every founder hits the point where things fall apart, mistakes repeat, and chaos rules the day. Studies show that up to 70% of small businesses fail within the first 10 years , often due to operational inefficiencies and mismanaged processes. In growing companies, employee disengagement costs the U.S. economy over $500 billion annually , and unclear workflows are a major driver. Those early years of “we’ll figure