The Pivot Playbook: Saving Your Business and Scaling Smart

By Nick Vonella

DON'T PUSH HARDER. PIVOT SMARTER.

You did not build the business just to become trapped inside it.

At first, growth feels exciting. More customers. More revenue. More opportunity.

Then the problems start.

Leads become inconsistent. The sales process gets harder to manage. The team needs the owner for every important decision. Follow-up gets missed. Margins tighten. Revenue becomes harder to predict.

The business is moving, but it is not scaling.

The real problem is often simple: the business has outgrown the way it is being run.

The Pivot Playbook is a tactical manual for founders, owners, and operators who have hit the ceiling and need a clear way forward. Drawing from Nick Vonella's experience building, failing, pivoting, selling a business to private equity, and solving the operational problems that come with growth, this book shows you how to identify what's holding your business back and rebuild the systems behind sustainable growth.

If your business feels too dependent on you, too inconsistent, too reactive, or too hard to scale, this book will help you find the problem, fix the process, and move forward with confidence.

This is not motivation.

This is the playbook for saving the business, tightening the machine, and scaling with control.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1913206955
• ISBN13: 9781913206956
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Onyx Publishing
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"