Business Planning

Too Fast or Too Slow – Growth Can Still Cause the Same Cash-Flow Problem

Oct 6, 2025

Over the past few months, I’ve come across two companies facing serious cash-flow challenges but for completely opposite reasons. As I’ve discussed in previous blogs, cash flow is one of the most common challenges for growing companies. When you read the cases you may think they have cash issues because they are fairly new and small in size. However, in both of these examples the companies have been around for a while and both are in the hundreds with regards to number of employees. 

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10 Tips to Scaling a Small/Midsized Business

Nov. 26, 2023

Hardly anyone focuses on the challenges you have as a leader of a small business that is established and growing. It really doesn’t matter if you are a leader with around 20 employees and growing or 100 employees and growing. After working with tens of thousands of leaders over the last 25 years, research, and my own experience growing a business to around $100M, I have these 10 tips for scaling your small to midsized business.

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Listen to Refine and Grow Podcast with Jonas Akerman

Nov. 10, 2023

Listen in as our own Jonas Akerman speaks with Justin Uhler and Lynse Allen of Refine and Grow about how to grow a small business and what indicators point toward success.

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