While growing, businesses reach a point where they are too big to be small but too small to be big. This place is called No Man’s Land.

In this episode, Mark Dorman speaks with Doug Tatum, Chairman of Newport LLC and the author of No Man’s Land: Where Growing Companies Fail. Doug explains how the book came to be from his personal experiences leading a firm and how it helps small business owners looking to grow their businesses.

Doug discusses: 

• What is No Man’s Land and how he discovered it
  
• Why entrepreneurs are scared to take the step and leave their inner circle
  
• The four M’s to navigate No Man’s Land
  
• How entrepreneurs can expand their business without losing control
  
• And more
  

Resources:

• No Man’s Land: Where Growing Companies Fail by Doug Tatum
  
• Newport, LLC
  

Connect with Mark Dorman: 

• LinkedIn: Mark Dorman
  
• Legacy Business Advisors
  
• Call: (330) 350-5410
  
• Email Mark: mdorman@dla-team.com
  
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Connect with Doug Tatum:

• LinkedIn: Doug Tatum
  
• Contact Doug: Newport, LLC
  
• Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship
  

About our Guest: 

Doug is Chairman of Newport LLC, a national partnership of CEOs and senior executives who advise emerging middle market companies and assist private equity firms to invest in and grow portfolio companies. He is also a member of the Teaching Faculty at the Jim Moran School of Entrepreneurship at Florida State and also Advisory Board Chairman for the Business Dynamics Research Consortium at the University of Wisconsin – Extension. Previously, Doug was Chairman and CEO of Tatum LLC, which grew into a highly respected national professional services firm with 30 offices and over 1000 professionals and employees. Doug is the author of No Man’s Land: Where Growing Companies Fail, a leading text about growth companies that has been translated into several languages and has won four National Best Business book awards.  His insights about the economy and business have been cited in hundreds of media outlets including Inc. Magazine, The Financial Times, and The New York Times online.