Seven Chairs and The Weight of Expansion: Trials & Tribulations Running a Hair Salon: 2

Seven salons. One growing business. And a weight no spreadsheet can measure.Carter & Co has expanded beyond anything Emily once imagined. Seven salons now carry the company name, each with its own team, history and way of doing things.Growth brings opportunity, but it also brings pressure. Standards must be protected, struggling locations rebuilt and difficult decisions made without losing the people and character that made the business worth growing in the first place.As Emily and her management team begin shaping a larger organisation, they face questions no financial forecast can answer. How much control is enough? When does support become interference? And how do you create consistency without making every salon identical?While new systems, shared training and unexpected sources of revenue offer a way forward, Emily discovers that leading a growing business requires more than ambition. It demands trust, resilience and the courage to let other people carry responsibility.Seven Chairs and the Weight of Expansion is the second novel in the Carter & Co series: an absorbing story about salon life, leadership and the human realities behind business growth.