Jake asks: "I finally got the growth I wanted, and now everything is harder. More leads but I'm dropping half. More revenue but cash flow is a mess. More deals and every new one creates new issues. What should I have put in place before I scaled?"

In this episode, Scott delivers a counterintuitive truth (growth is not always the goal), explains why you cannot scale chaos, and shares two stories—his own company nearly shutting down, and a multifamily investor whose back office collapsed at scale. You'll learn the doubling test (can you handle 2X before 10X?), why scaling is like building an airplane in flight, and why slowing down is sometimes the fastest way forward.

The bottom line: Before you hit the gas, slow down. Make sure your systems can handle double. Then scale. You cannot scale chaos.

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