Business Transition Roadmap with Elizabeth Ledoux · 2026-06-09 · 30 min
What happens when three business partners cannot agree on what comes next? That was the spot Jimmy Taylor found himself in at Novotus. The company had grown for more than a decade, competitors were getting bought by giants the size of IBM, and the three owners could not align on whether to take on a partner, take on investment, or chart a path to retirement. The tension did not stay contained to one decision. It crept into everything. In this episode, Jimmy and Elizabeth trace how that stuck feeling spreads, what it took to break it, and why the partners walked away as friends. From there the conversation opens up into the bigger pattern Elizabeth has seen across thirty years of this work. The dilemmas that keep owners frozen are usually imagined futures, not present-day facts. The mindsets that trap them often sound like loyalty. And the exercise that changes everything is simpler, and more uncomfortable, than most people expect: actually writing down what you want.
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