Growing a company is like riding white water rapids. You have some experience and business is good. It’s exhilarating and satisfying but if you lose concentration for just a brief moment, things can go bad very quickly.

In business, an ounce of prevention really is worth a pound of cure and while you may have built your business on solid instinct, hard work and good luck in the smaller streams, planning, training, dynamic teamwork and solid coaching is essential when moving into the larger faster rivers.