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8 Behaviors that Stunt Growth for Most Mid-sized Family-Owned Businesses

March 31, 2011 by

[HTML1] Entitlement mentality or accepting the “devil-you-know” can limit growth. Learn how to move beyond “business as usual”. Many family-owned businesses end up with multiple locations draining their profitability. Ask yourself if your president has enough authority, or gives it away. The true purpose of your family owned business may be more obvious to your employees and customers than you may think.

More about Aldonna Ambler
Aldonna R. Ambler, CMC, CSP is an award winning entrepreneur,  a prolific author, host of an online radio talk show, and an intermediary who helps midmarket companies obtain growth financing.  Her business has grown through geographic expansion, acquisition, joint ventures, diversification, and an ESOP. Known as The Growth Strategist™, Ambler helps rapidly growing midsized companies (typically $20 – 200 million/year) realize their goal of Achieving Accelerated Growth With Sustained Profitability® through opportunity/resource analysis, executive coaching, strategic working sessions, and her intermediary role regarding growth financing. As President of the international firm, AMBLER Growth Strategy Consultants, Inc., headquartered in Hammonton, New Jersey, Ambler has won over two dozen national and statewide “Entrepreneur of the Year” awards for her international businesses resilient growth. Her clients are among the brightest, most ambitious business leaders whose names now appear on published lists of the fastest growing privately held corporations.

Ambler is the host of a weekly Internet radio show, The Growth Strategist™, which airs live every Tuesday at 11 am ET on the VoiceAmerica® Business Channel.  It is a peer-to-peer show featuring CEOs of midmarket companies that have successfully executed the growth strategy featured on that week’s show.  Ambler has recognized these growth strategies in her over 30 years serving the types of companies that appear on the Inc. 500/Fortune 500 lists.  The show reaches thousands of listeners each week via live broadcast or download/podcast.  Ambler is the Lead Instructor for IBM’s Owners and Presidents Program serving IBM’s global network of business partners.

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About Aldonna Ambler

Aldonna R. Ambler, CMC, CSP has earned the right to be called The Growth Strategist™. She has won over two dozen national and statewide “entrepreneur of the year” awards for the resilient growth of her international businesses across four recessions. More importantly, her midsized B-to-B service, technology, and distribution clients get on…and then stay on…the published lists of the fastest growing privately held companies. Ambler hosts a weekly peer-to-peer-to-peer online radio program.

Aldonna is also the Host of The Growth Strategist™ Radio Show on WomensRadio. The Growth Strategist™ Radio Show is a peer-to-peer broadcast that features interviews with CEOs and Presidents of midsized companies (typically between $20-$200 million/year) sharing success tips about the growth strategy-of-the-week. This show will identify the strengths, strategies and challenges facing these CEO's on a daily basis.