Founders of boutique professional service firms can prevent their firms from growing/scaling/exiting by staying too long.

How?

Here are the top 4 issues and how often they get in the way. (source n=120: “office hours with Greg”)

If your C-suite is a revolving door, growth stalls, decision making slows, and employees get whiplash from flavor of the week strategies, you are the problem.

What to do?

Replace yourself with a CEO.

Don’t worry. The title of Founder is like a tattoo, not a hat. It never changes.