The skills and attitudes that fueled initial growth will almost always fail at a certain point when inertia is reached. The needs of a company with 1-2 locations are different from the needs of a company with 25-30 locations. Continued growth past that inertia point depends on the company's ability to adapt to the new demands and requirements...which is where many otherwise successful smaller corps fail. People who built a company up from practically nothing are very unlikely to listen to someone saying "You can't keep doing it this way if you want to keep growing". Even though this is basic organizational behavior and business management stuff.