In spite of braggadocio about rising sales figures, bottom-line results, and upcoming prospects, businesses do stall and stagnate. Streamline.com was a raging Internet stock until it ran into a wall. Kodak was a Wall Street favorite and now it’s struggling to find itself. For years Xerox set the standard; then it lost direction.
It happens to smaller businesses, too. Keep your contracting company in mind as you read these examples.