My Business On Purpose
664: 4 Blind Spots Preventing Owners From Retaining Talent and Growing Profit
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:06:46
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Synopsis
I’ve heard it said that 96% of businesses will not see their tenth birthday. A study conducted by the Exit Planning Institute reveals 30% of those businesses that survive will make it through their 2nd generation. Of what little remains, only 12% of the very limited 2nd generation businesses will make it through the 3rd generation. Business is hard. Regardless of product, regardless of industry, regardless of market, leadership, and sustainability; business is hard. A modern refrain among owners and leaders is that “nobody wants to work anymore”. Older generations look down the pathway of a younger lineage and sense a mood of apathy and lack of resolve. We then begin to conjecture as to why “nobody wants to work anymore” and begin unwrapping and applying the band-aids of bygone solutions that worked in the past hoping desperately for the tried-and-true to spur renewed action into the future. And then they don’t. In a culture of significant fluctuation and innovation, it is the older generation (this author