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When speaking to people who's businesses have failed it is not unusual to hear them blame everything and everybody but themselves. Some might say that they don't know why they failed and indeed there might be some honesty in that, particularly where the proprietor's inexperience in basic business skills was the prime cause of failure. The reality is that most business failures stem directly or indirectly from bad management. This sounds all too obvious and even trite but in small businesses articularly, the proprietor is the only driving force for all activities and his/her inexperience can sow the seeds of early failure. The gaining of experience has an inherent time element and the small business proprietor is always short on time. Business people should recognise that businesses, like people, go through stages of growing up; each stage posing different problems. Knowing where you are on the life cycle will help enormously. Remember your business will not stand still, it will either go backwards or forward.