What's worse, it takes so little to drain away the hard fought value of all that effort and energy leaving you and your family with nothing to show for the sacrifice. And it's our families who really pay a price too. It seems like there is just one way to build a business … hard work from smart people … but so many ways to take it apart.

And, of course, stuff always happens when you least expect it and can't afford it either. I mean,
what if ….

You're busy working, minding your own business and the guy you've been grooming to take over one day jumps to the competition … and takes all the advice you've given him and uses it against you. You end up in competition with yourself? Yeah, yeah, you've got a confidentiality and non-compete clause in his contract, but maybe like me you've discovered that anytime you have to invoke them you're screwed anyway? How does a guy defend himself from this sort of thing? If there was only a way to make this sort of thing impossible to start with? …

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