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EntreLeadership · 2026-02-23 · 7 min · 1,245 words

The Real Reason You’ll Never Grow Your Business

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Here's the bottom line, folks. You don't have to stay stuck as a treadmill operator. And you can't. It's not sustainable. When we were at that stage, no matter how fast I ran or how hard I worked, we weren't making any progress and 100% of the revenue depended on me.

showing up, putting up screens, or running my mouth on a microphone. That's the first stage all businesses go through, and it's exhausting, but you can get out. And today John Felkins from Ontree Leadership is going to show you how. You'll learn the key problems for businesses in the treadmill operator stage and more importantly, exactly how to address them. When you're in the treadmill operator stage, every decision goes through you.

Every problem lands on your desk and every customer complaint winds up in your inbox. In other words, you're the chief everything officer and it feels like you're carrying the whole business on your back. That's a recipe for Bernide. That's because being a treadmill operator leads to three major problems. For starters, you're working in the business way more than you're working

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