The Hard Truth About Running Your Own Business Everyone talks about starting a business ideas, funding, excitement but very few talk about what comes after you’ve started: The real challenge...

Very true. The best advice I can pass along is have a detailed but flexible plan of subsequent baby steps and always plan according to the scale of... your operation. After each little expansion, solidify what you have and don’t stretch yourself thin. Keep track of issues that become bottlenecks or jeopardize your operations. Optimize processes and give your team time to adjust before introducing new ones or changing existing ones. Especially if you have a team, always take into account how much they can realistically handle and encourage eye level feedback. If you don’t, they will stop informing you of mishaps and issues to avoid the extra workload, costing you valuable time in which a little spark can cause a massive wildfire. You don’t want to be too late to the scene where the damage is already too big. Build trust and a sense of ownership and responsibility by systematically rewarding accountability. more