Why Businesses Fail

Welcome back to another episode of "Accelerate Your Business Growth" with your host, Diane Helbig. In today's episode, we have a very special guest joining us - Larry Mandelberg, a true expert in the field of business growth. Larry shares his insightful perspective on the crucial aspects of focusing on quality over quantity when it comes to growing your business. Drawing from his wealth of experience and expertise, Larry highlights the common pitfalls that many businesses fall into, making decisions based on the wrong factors and facing financial troubles as a result. He introduces the concept of clarity of purpose and understanding the market that best aligns with your company's expertise and value.

Larry Mandelberg is a serial entrepreneur who solves complex business problems. He provides leadership team development, change mentoring, strategic planning, executive coaching, and ethics training to midsize organizations and their boards through his consulting practice.

Larry has launched four start-ups, led a merger, and conducted a successful turnaround. Among his thirteen businesses, he’s also had the unfortunate pleasure of suffering business suicide firsthand. He’s the author of Businesses Don’t Fail, They Commit Suicide.

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The Importance of Clarity of Purpose: "Organizations in the stage of youth always fail because of a lack of clarity of purpose."

— Larry Mandelberg 00:03:39

The Problem with Job Descriptions: "I don't want people to give people tasks. I want them to give them goals or roles. Right. So in this case, what you say is your job is to keep the office clean. What a concept? You have a brain. You can think for yourself."

— Larry Mandelberg 00:16:57

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