Why don’t scaling companies seek support?

This week I met with someone leading a fast-growing network designed to connect scaling companies to people internationally who can help them with introductions, mentoring and more. They have a huge demand from people looking to pay to be in their network to both meet each other and to attend events where businesses come to ask for support in scaling to the next level in whatever city or region the particular event for that network is being held in.

However, it turns out their biggest constraint to growing their network is a lack of scaling businesses asking for support.

This conversation led me to a simple epiphany as to why that is the case.

Why don’t scaling companies seek support?

So, in looking at why scaling companies don’t seek support, I’ll break it down into a few areas of thought, from definition to background to source issues to solutions:

1. What do we mean by “Scaling Companies”
2. From the Information Age to the Connection Age
3. Working “in” the business rather than “on” the business
4. What can be done so that scaling…