Here is a question worth sitting with for a moment: when a business stalls, what actually went wrong?
The most common answers tend to involve the usual suspects – cash flow, market timing, leadership. And sure, those things matter. But there’s a subtler failure mode that doesn’t make the autopsy report as often as it should. It’s not that the talent didn’t exist. It’s that you didn’t have access to expertise – the right expertise – when you needed it most.
That’s a meaningful distinction. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
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