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The No. 1 Reason Small Business Owners Don’t Grow (or Don’t Grow as Well as They Could) by Howard Partridge
Vision without action is just a daydream.
Many times you know what to do and how to do it—you just don’t do it. After coaching hundreds of business owners and addressing thousands, I have found that FTI—or “Failure to Implement—is the No. 1 reason that small businesses don’t grow or do as well as they could.
Small business owners are so overwhelmed, distracted, and just trying to pay the bills that actually implementing anything additional can be daunting. So how can you overcome FTI?

