Articles on leadership.
Owner dependency rarely shows up in the headline multiple. It shows up somewhere less visible, and usually too late to do anything about it.
A threshold that once caught the exceptions now catches most of the work, and somewhere along the way the control…
Most management reporting grows by addition and never by subtraction: which is why the pack gets longer as it gets…
When a number is wrong in the same direction every quarter, the error stops being noise and becomes information, and…
Approval thresholds are set once and almost never revisited, and the drift quietly converts a financial control into a queue…
When a buyer discounts owner dependency, the discount rarely shows up in the multiple: it shows up somewhere far more…
When the same choice keeps coming back to the table, the problem is rarely the choice itself: it's what never…
Most management accounts arrive too late to change anything they describe, and the fix is rarely a faster accountant, or…
A business that runs fine while the owner is on holiday can still be priced as owner-dependent: the test a…
Most slow decisions in a small business are not slow because they are hard. They are slow because they are…
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