EPISODE · Jul 1, 2021 · 34 MIN
How Complacency Nearly Killed a Thriving Business (Aya Shlachter)
from My Favorite Mistake: Learning Without Blame in Business and Leadership · host Mark Graban
Mom, wife, entrepreneur, speaker, and CEO of MGS Global Group Show notes: https://www.markgraban.com/mistake81 My guest for Episode #81 of the My Favorite Mistake podcast is Aya Shlachter, a mom, wife, entrepreneur, speaker, and CEO of MGS Global Group, a built environment, architectural and graphic design consulting firm serving the creative industry. Her team specializes in architectural support, graphics production support, and design consulting services in the retail, residential and hospitality sectors for leading brands, including Coach, Michael Kors, Tory Burch, and many restaurants. Aya also runs the Architect My Life program, where she helps female creative entrepreneurs and CEOs like architects and designers scale to seven figures in 12 months or less while enjoying more out of life along the way. She will also be launching a podcast of the same name. Aya earned a Master’s degree in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. In this episode, Aya shares her favorite mistake about getting complacent in the early days of a business that was going really well… until it was not. Why was the business on “autopilot” and what problems did that cause? Thankfully, early recognition of the mistake prevented bigger problems. Other topics and questions: Mistakes in setting up her website? Systems in place to prevent cashflow blindness? Covid challenges — hold out or pivot? Creating a system to look for blind spots / need to pivot? Mistakes retailers make in store design? Mistakes entrepreneurs make? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/favorite-mistake/support
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Aya Shlachter built a highly successful design and architecture consulting firm serving major global brands — and then nearly lost it by letting the business run on autopilot. In this episode, Aya shares how complacency crept in, the warning signs she almost missed, and how early recognition helped her avoid a far bigger crisis. She also explains the systems she put in place to prevent cash flow blindness and future blind spots. We discuss entrepreneurship, leadership mistakes, scaling creative businesses, and how to stay proactive when things seem to be going “too well.”
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