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One honest case per offering — the argument I would make across a table, written down so you can test it before we ever speak.
The expensive problems are shaped like projects, not jobs. Senior finance by the day — with no commission riding on the answer.
Ten things that quietly cost a business real money — late payments alone average ~$29,000 a year. Any two dwarf the fee.
The buyer has done this ten times; you get one go. Why an unopposed offer is a price, not a value.
Two sliders: what you invoice, and how late you get paid. Out comes the number nobody puts on their P&L.
Four rungs from owner-dependent to platform. Each one widens the pool of buyers allowed to bid.
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One data point at a time — each one relevant to any owner-led business, with the source attached. Added as they earn it.
What being paid late costs the average Australian SME per year — cash funding your customers’ businesses instead of yours.
OneBook SME Cash Flow Report, 2026How far company insolvencies are running above the five-year average — with ATO enforcement a material driver. The quiet businesses outrunning their reporting are the ones with time to act.
ASIC, year to 28 February 2026The share of SMEs using their adviser mainly for compliance and admin — not strategy or growth. The tax return tells you what happened last year; nobody is paid to say what should happen next quarter.
Findex SME Growth Index, 2026Eight books that changed how I price risk, judge management, read a cycle, keep changing, and stay calm through all of it.
Eight unconventional CEOs who beat the market by treating capital allocation — not operations — as the CEO’s real job. The best short course on what a great owner actually does.
Goodreads ›Eight centuries of financial crises, and the same four words spoken before every one of them. The reason I hold cash discipline above growth stories.
Goodreads ›Two centuries of data on one quiet law: when the return on capital outruns growth, wealth compounds to the owners of assets, not the earners of wages. Whatever you make of the politics, it is the strongest case ever assembled for owning the business rather than just working in one.
Goodreads ›Why smart people make predictable mistakes with numbers — anchoring, overconfidence, loss aversion. Every negotiation I sit in is this book, live.
Goodreads ›Decades of research on when life actually feels best — and it is never leisure. It is absorbed, stretching effort with a clear goal and instant feedback. Meaning lives in the doing, not the finishing.
Goodreads ›Case studies of brains rewiring themselves at every age — they read like fiction and are not. The reason I don’t believe in fixed people, fixed habits, or fixed businesses.
Goodreads ›A psychiatrist in the camps discovers the last human freedom: choosing your response. The deepest answer to what actually makes people change — not pressure, a reason.
Goodreads ›Private notes from a man running an empire, never meant to be published. Two thousand years old and still the best manual for staying calm while everything demands a reaction — control what you can, let the rest pass.
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