Allison MaslanCEO & Business Scaling Expert | WSJ Bestselling Author

Why Your Business Won't Grow Past You

10 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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Allison Maslan describes a breakdown that led her to study how founders of Ben & Jerry's and Supercuts scaled their businesses. The pattern: they stopped doing daily tasks and focused on partnerships, acquisitions, and expansion instead. If you're still in the weeds, your company won't grow past you.

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I really had to have the breakdown before I had the breakthrough. And I tell you, I had a major, major breakdown. But that was my wake-up call. I needed to go through that to really understand the pain of it. And then I found out how many other founders were going through the same thing. And so I began to study my clients like Ben Jerry's and Supercuts that had thousands of employees. You didn't see the founder standing over everybody like an orchestra leader. You didn't see the CEO telling everyone what to do. No, they were out building strategic partnerships, doing acquisitions, expanding to other regions. And that's what you all need to be doing, not working in the day-to-day of your business.