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How to bust through barriers to business growth 公司发展必须突破3大障碍 Most businesses fail to grow -- with a vast majority remaining tiny, one- or two-person shops. Id like to see more reach their potential. Even if a business isnt destined to be the next Google, Amazon, or Facebook, it can still become a thriving, mid-market company. Here are three barriers to growth you need to blast through if you want your business to scale up. 大多数公司都无法实现成长——其中很大一部分一直都是只有一、两个人的小作坊。我希望能有更多的公司实现发展的潜能。即使命中注定成不了下一个谷歌（Google）、亚马逊（Amazon）或者Facebook，一家公司还是可以在中型企业领域实现蓬勃发展。要想扩大业务规模，你就得突破下列三重障碍。 1. The inability of the CEO to let go. This is the primary reason that a paltry 5% of businesses break the $1 million revenue mark and only about one in eight of those reach $10 million, according to recent data. Either the owner thinks hes the only person capable of getting things done or tried to delegate once but got burned by a bad hire and cant trust anyone again. 1. CEO没有放权的能力。近期数据显示，在所有公司中，收入突破100万美元的仅占5%；在这5%的公司中，收入达到1000万美元的只有八分之一，主要原因就在于此。企业主要么认为自己是唯一能胜任领导工作的人，要么曾经交出过管理权，但因为遇人不淑而蒙受损失，继而不再相信任何人。 The only way to get through this is to find people who can do things better than you and who dont need to be managed. Will the folks you hire mess up sometimes? Yes, but youve got to push past that. If you suffer the short-term challenges of bringing someone up to speed, your life will get a lot easier and your company will be able to tackle bigger projects and contracts. 扫除这个障碍的唯一办法就是找到工作能力更强而且不需要管理的人。你聘请的那些人有时会把事情搞糟吗？会，但你必须迈过这道坎。如果能忍受他们在提速过程中带来的短期挑战，你的工作就会变得轻松很多，你的公司也就能接下更大的项目与合同。 2. Being a cheapskate. In the startup phase, when youre not making much money, youve got to be a bit of skinflint, but there comes a point where you have to invest in your business or it wont grow. Im not suggesting that you spend yourself silly, but if you want to grow, youre going to have to upgrade some of your systems, whether that means your accounting software, phones, or IT infrastructure. Youll need better office space