The Business Owner's Gut Check

Check anything that's true for you right now. Answer honestly — at the end, we'll tell you exactly where you stand.

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Financial Health

You're a little embarrassed by your margins — and tell yourself nobody really makes money in this business. Profit is whatever's left over at the end, not something you planned for. Your revenue is growing faster than what actually reaches the bottom line. You don't have a rolling Six-Week Cash Flow Forecast. You couldn't name your breakeven number without checking.

Leadership & Accountability

You end up making most of the real decisions yourself, even when you've "delegated" them. Accountability is inconsistent — some people answer for their numbers, most don't. There's an employee making more, working less, and taking more vacation than you — and somehow that feels normal. You're still "selling" your own team on ideas they should already be bought into. Information about what's really happening moves through you, not through any real system.

Ownership & Control

You don't feel fully in control of your own destiny in this business. You're not confident your business is recession-proof. You genuinely don't know how many hours you work in a real week. This business could not run for more than a week or two without you. "Autopilot" is not a word you'd use to describe how this business runs.

Legacy & Exit

You can't remember the last time you really sat down and planned for the business's future. Retirement, if you're honest, still depends on this business figuring itself out first. You're not confident your business would sell for what you think it's worth. If a successor took over tomorrow, you're not sure it would hold together. You know you should call The Fremont Group for help — but you still haven't.

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Adapted from a diagnostic The Fremont Group has used with business owners since 2002.