Signs that the point is already under load

• Important decisions are postponed from one meeting to the next.
• The partners communicate through employees, the accountant or in writing about things they used to discuss in person.
• One person holds information that no one else checks.
• Only the owner knows the arrangements with the banks, the main clients or the suppliers.
• The subject of the future of the business is avoided in the presence of the successor, or the successor himself avoids it.
• Conversations about profit turn more and more often into conversations about fairness.
• A key employee could leave, and no one knows exactly what he does.
• The articles of association are opened only when there is a dispute.
• The owner has not taken a real holiday for years, because without him the work stops.
• Decisions about the properties and the companies are taken out of habit and not according to a plan.

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