by George Sotiropoulos | Feb 25, 2026 | Business Value, Dependency on Owner, Scaling the Business
“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its...
by George Sotiropoulos | Feb 24, 2026 | Business Value
This week, police in North Carolina found Michele Hundley Smith alive and well. She’d been missing since December 2001. Left home to go Christmas shopping at a Kmart. Never came back.Three children left behind. The youngest was seven.Twenty-four years of not...
by George Sotiropoulos | Feb 23, 2026 | Business Value
In The Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufrense didn’t wait until he was “ready” for his exit.When he picked up that rock hammer for the first time, he didn’t have a plan. Didn’t know the wall was soft enough to chip through. Didn’t have the poster to...
by George Sotiropoulos | Feb 20, 2026 | Business Value, Dependency on Owner, Scaling the Business
His name was Robert. Engineering consultancy. Fifteen years in business. Solid revenue. Good clients. Respected in his industry.On paper, worth north of $2 million.Then his wife filed for divorce.Robert wasn’t a bad guy. Just busy. Always busy. He’d been...
by George Sotiropoulos | Feb 19, 2026 | Business Value, Dependency on Owner, Scaling the Business
One of my first clients was proud of his spreadsheet.Massive thing. Hundreds of tabs. Colour-coded. Formulas nested inside formulas. He’d built the entire accounting and finance function of his business inside this beast.No bookkeeper. No finance manager. No...
