Small Business Blind Spot Solutions: The eight most common challenges business owners fail to see

The problems you face as a small business owner are not unique. Thousands of others just like you are encountering similar challenges. What you may not know, however, is that there are common elements to the major problems all small business owners face.

When a business grows in size, various issues accompany that growth and can easily become overlooked. Just as a parent doesn’t notice incremental changes as their child develops and grows from day-to-day, a business owner can also fail to see how their company alters as it expands over time. This inability to recognize change occurring right before your eyes is due to specific blind spots that emerge as a business transforms and evolves.

The hardest part of my job is convincing business owners that the root cause of most, if not all of their problems, are caused by at least one of the eight most common blind spots. Throughout my career working with small business owners, I have learned that every business owner has blind spots.