Renowned business author Patrick Lencioni likes numbers. You can tell by the way he titles some of his books: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team, The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive, The Three Big Questions for a Frantic Family, The Five Temptations of a CEO, and The
“Bigger isn’t better if it isn’t making money.”
In the life of every successful small business, there comes what the mathematicians would call an “inflection point” . . . it’s the point on a curve where the curve changes direction. In a business, it’s that point where an owner must decide whether to keep the business at a relatively small size, or pull