By Beth Miller, an EO Elumni and Overdrive contributor

As an EO elumni and a Chair for Vistage International, one of the biggest benefits that peer groups can provide for a business owner is accountability. Often, small to mid-size business owners don’t have someone they are truly accountable to. They may have a few industry mentors or an advisory board, yet are they truly accountable to them?

So what can happen when an entrepreneur lacks a system of accountability? Here are the three top problems I have seen leaders face when they don’t have an accountability system for their performance: