Most people that own their own business don't think enough about the stopping part. Until it's much too late.

In a perfect business model, you start to plan for your end about five seconds after you first think about your beginning.

Instead, the determination, confidence and hubris that all entrepreneurs require obscures the fact that building the entire organization around their unique skills makes them essential to its ongoing success.

The result is that the only exit for many owners is closure. Sometimes they even get to determine the timing. But many more times they do not.

Our first focus when we get hired is to figure out what the owner's dreams look like. And what kind of exit plan they're hoping for.

Then we help them decide which one will have to be re-designed.