Anne Gray is a business consultant, MBA graduate of GIBS, and co-founder of Grow Your Healthcare Practice — a business education and coaching platform built specifically for healthcare professionals running private practices in South Africa. I have been inside enough messy boardrooms to know the real problem is almost never the obvious one. The same is true in healthcare practices, in start-ups, and in businesses that have outgrown the version of their founder that built them. I work with founders who are excellent at their work, and find that building the business around it turns out to be a different skill set entirely. If you're a healthcare practice owner: the podcast, the free community, and the mastermind are for you. If you're a small business owner who's hit a ceiling: you're in the right place too. Writing about business, leadership, and the work behind the work.
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To grow my business, I had to work on this first
Published about 10 hours ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader Last week, I told you about hiring a new virtual assistant in three days. I shared the process — a bit of AI, advice from coaches on how to hire well, and then boldly getting on with it. But I didn't tell you what had to happen before that. Moving into the next stage of my business meant acknowledging that my existing VA arrangement was no longer the right fit — and making a difficult decision about it. That part was harder. And looking back, I don't think I would have handled it...
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