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Vijay Johar

Your Business Can’t Scale If Your People Don’t

Published 4 months ago • 1 min read

Issue #9 | Oct 2025

Hello Reader,

The biggest risk to any growing business? Not competition. Not capital.
It’s when the business grows but the people don’t.

Meet Meera, founder of a mid-sized manufacturing company.
Her business had scaled rapidly sales doubled, systems were in place, customers were happy.

But cracks began to appear.
Every decision, big or small, circled back to Meera. Approvals piled up. Managers waited for her word. Growth slowed because the company’s speed was tied to one person.

A mentor asked her:
​"Do you want to build a business that depends on you, or one that outlives you?"

That question changed her lens.
She realized her role was no longer to make every decision, it was to build leaders who could.

Meera invested in:

  • Leadership training & mentoring for her managers.
  • Delegating authority with clear accountability.
  • Creating growth paths so people saw a future in the business.

Within a year, her managers owned decisions, her time freed up, and the company grew faster than before.

Meera became not just a successful entrepreneur, but a leader of leaders.

🧩 The Solution:

Message: Businesses scale when leadership scales.

From the Desk of Vijay

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Business & Leadership Coach | Entrepreneur | Author | Inspiring Change

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​ "Great businesses are built by great business owners."

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