When Clayton Scott began his electrical
contracting company in 2001, the seas
were rough simply because beginnings in
the business world tend to be challenging.
It also didn’t help that Clayton was navigat-
ing through the vast world of commerce
virtually on his own. Even though Sue
Scott worked outside the company at this
time, she has been watching the growth
of the company since its inception. “In the
beginning, Clayton was trying to do every-
thing by himself,” she said.
This triggered a new step in the company’s
growth strategy – a consolidation phase
that united the Scott duo in business. Four
years after the birth of the company, Sue
left her full-time job to work alongside her
husband in an administrative capacity.
“We were a couple, so we wanted to
make sure that we could work together
and in 2005, we made a commitment for
six months to try and work together,” Sue
said.
The partnership worked because the cou-
ple took certain measures to ensure suc-
cess. Consulting a business coach was
one such step. Eventually, Sue learned
to navigate through the multiple layers of
operating a business and the couple were
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