By John Jantsch

One the biggest impediments to small business growth is the owner’s brain.

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It’s not that the owner’s thinking is flawed, it’s that most of knowledge, mission, vision and basic how to do stuff stays locked up there.

Most small businesses expand and contract relative to what the owner can keep their arms and thoughts around. The key, of course, to unlocking this constraint rests in the organization’s ability to document how and why everything is done through the vision and receptors of the owner.

This is the only way to growth for most small businesses.

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