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Small Businesses Don't Need to Be Large to Be Massive | Chip Higgins on Momentum
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- Business Roundtable
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- May 12, 2026
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Summary
Most business owners believe they need to get bigger to be successful. Chip Higgins believes the opposite and forty years of banking experience backs him up. Chip Higgins spent four decades in banking, working directly with thousands of small business owners. What he observed was that size had almost nothing to do with success. Some of the most impressive businesses he worked with were small. What made them exceptional was momentum a real, measurable force that operates according to the laws of physics, not metaphor. In his book The Bizzics Way, Chip distills momentum into one equation borrowed from physics: mass times velocity. The businesses that understood this equation and intentionally built both dimensions thrived. Those that didn't eventually hit a wall. In this episode, David Carr and Chip break down what momentum actually is, why most business owners confuse activity with progress, and the three variables every leader must get right to build a business that lasts. In this episode: Why momentum is not a metaphor but a real force operating in your business right now The energy equation: how to assess where your personal energy is and how it impacts everything else What direction means and why clarity about where you are going is non negotiable The difference between mass and scale and why small businesses can be massive Why leadership is learnable and how developing yourself is the foundation of everything else How to identify whether your business is building linear momentum or just spinning in circles About Chip Higgins: Chip Higgins is the founder of Bizzics and author of The Bizzics Way: Powering Your Small Business to Maximum Momentum. With over forty years of experience in banking and business leadership, Chip has advised thousands of small business owners…