Just Whose Business Is It? 10 Business Owner Types – Find and Fix Yours to be Properly Profitable and for Successful Exit

Just Whose Business Is It? offers a fresh, insightful perspective on ten common business owner types identifies by Kathi Hyde during her thirty years as an industrial psychologist and award-winning business coach. From the ‘Rock Star’ and the ‘Caged Bear’ to the ‘Ostrich’ and more, Kathi helps you recognise and understand how your owner-type behaviours influence every aspect of your business.

With engaging and relatable stories – including Kathi’s own – you’ll uncover where these patterns originate, how they show up in different areas of your business, and the practical steps you can take to address them. This process will empower you to transform an established business into a sustainable, properly profitable and saleable asset.

Just Whose Business Is It? is for you if you are:

• doing well, but struggling to break through limitations or sustain success
• time-poor, overworked, or stretched too thin
• scaling up or experiencing runaway success, which you’re managing badly or struggling to control.
• unable to leave your business for any significant length of time
• struggling to adapt to market changes or unexpected challenges
• making loads of money, but asking yourself, ‘At what cost?’
• wanting to step back, exit, or sell – but feel stuck or can’t
• looking for advice that’s easy to read and inspires you to take action.

In Part Two of Just Whose Business Is It? Kathi also lays out the Gold Standard for what a sustainable, properly profitable, and saleable business should look like. Use the principles in this book to prepare for long-term success and the retirement or exit you’ve worked so hard for – and deserve.

What others say about Just Whose Business Is It?

‘Enjoyable and useful!’
Dr Tony Alessandra, hall-of-fame keynote speaker, global marketing guru, founder of Assessments 24×7, and author of the bestseller The Platinum Rule and 31 other books.

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“A punchy, fast-paced, informative, good read.”
David Harrison, CEO of the DG Murray Trust (a strategic investor and public innovator aimed at galvanising funding coalitions towards real and systemic change in South Africa), and founder of both the Health Systems Trust (aimed at improving the quality of healthcare in clinics countrywide) and loveLife (a national HIV prevention programme).

‘What a gift to those in the business world!’
Dr Robert Steiner, theologian, musician, ordained minister and chaplain to UCT, The Red Cross Children’s Hospital and Pollsmoor Prison

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Purchase your copy of Kathi’s book PEACE by Piece: A Practical Guide to Stepping Up or Starting Over in Business and in Life