---
title: "Modern Small Business  Blog - Sapience Financial"
description: "Explore modern small business leadership through the lens of life, love, and business. Our blog helps you lead with purpose and become the change you want to see in your work and community."
url: "https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business?start=12"
date: "2026-06-18T10:49:56+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
---

#  Modern Small Business Leadership

- [ Modern Small Business ](https://sapience.com.au/modern-small-business-blog)

![Drew Browne Modern Small Business thought-provocateur](https://sapience.com.au/images/logo-brands/Drew-Browne-Modern-Small-Business-Blog.svg)

### Welcome to our Modern Small Business Leadership Blog

*Life, Love & Business* – it's a phrase we often use to explain the everyday interconnection between our business lives and our personal lives — all for the purpose of protecting and providing for those we love and nurturing our key relationships.

Our experience is most people want to be better people, to run better businesses and be better able to contribute to their communities and families in more meaningful ways. At its core of course, is the drive of leadership; who you are when nobody's looking, what you believe (and what you don't) who you value, what you support, and how you choose to show up in the world around you. Leadership is how we live (and work) with purpose and become that change we want to see in the world around us.

Our **Modern Small Business Leadership Blog** is for people who want to actively grow themselves, their businesses, and their community – so they can all live a bigger life.

![Written by Human Not made by AI sapience financial](https://sapience.com.au/images/icons/not-made-by-AI-sapience-financial-black.png)

### “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision”

― Peter F. Drucker

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  [ ![A close up view of a French patisserie cake shop with berries and icing](https://sapience.com.au/images/blog/leadership/tales-from-the-dessert-cart-drew-browne-modern-small-business-blog.jpg) ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/our-communities-need-leaders-now-not-promises-of-money-later "Our communities need leaders now, not promises of money later") ##  [ Our communities need leaders now, not promises of money later ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/our-communities-need-leaders-now-not-promises-of-money-later)

### What you really value you start today -(Tales from the dessert cart!)

Many things in life and business depend upon insights grown and tested over time.

- [ leadership ](https://sapience.com.au/all-tags/leadership)
- [ Modern Small Business ](https://sapience.com.au/modern-small-business-blog)
- [ 🤝 Small Business Risk & Partnership ](https://sapience.com.au/insights/small-business-risk-partnership)
- [ 🌍 Social Leadership & Conscious Business ](https://sapience.com.au/insights/social-leadership-conscious-business)

 [ Read more … ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/our-communities-need-leaders-now-not-promises-of-money-later)

  [ ![A top down view of a person in jeans wearing a blue shoe and a yellow shoe](https://sapience.com.au/images/blog/leadership/Are-you-solving-the-wrong-problem-with-the-right-answer-drewbrowne-modern-small-business-blog.jpg) ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/are-you-solving-the-wrong-problem-with-the-right-answer "Are you solving the wrong problem with the right answer?") ##  [ Are you solving the wrong problem with the right answer? ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/are-you-solving-the-wrong-problem-with-the-right-answer)

### A new way to look at round pegs

Small business, at its simplest form is about being able to manage and solve problems for people, just in time.

So why do many business owners say they regularly struggle to diagnose business problems correctly?

What if the problem they’re solving is the wrong one?

And what’s the long term outcome when you’re constantly pouring your limited time, focus and resources, into the wrong cup?

- [ leadership ](https://sapience.com.au/all-tags/leadership)
- [ Modern Small Business ](https://sapience.com.au/modern-small-business-blog)
- [ 🧠 Evolutionary Finance ](https://sapience.com.au/insights/evolutionary-finance)
- [ 🤝 Small Business Risk & Partnership ](https://sapience.com.au/insights/small-business-risk-partnership)

 [ Read more … ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/are-you-solving-the-wrong-problem-with-the-right-answer)

  [ ![A man in a business shirt taking off his glasses as he stands in a corridor thinking about an idea](https://sapience.com.au/images/blog/leadership/what-does-it-feel-like-to-be-wrong-drewbrowne-modern-small-business-blog.jpg) ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/what-does-it-feel-like-to-be-wrong "What does it feel like to be wrong?") ##  [ What does it feel like to be wrong? ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/what-does-it-feel-like-to-be-wrong)

### Learning how to think better in a team decision environment depends upon this skill

For a small business owner whose competitive advantage is their ability to out-think the competition, this is a problem we need to understand better.

And it starts with learning how to think better in a team decision environment. Never just trust your gut.

- [ leadership ](https://sapience.com.au/all-tags/leadership)
- [ Modern Small Business ](https://sapience.com.au/modern-small-business-blog)
- [ 🤝 Small Business Risk & Partnership ](https://sapience.com.au/insights/small-business-risk-partnership)

 [ Read more … ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/what-does-it-feel-like-to-be-wrong)

  [ ![A person holding a large cardboard sign with the word donation displaying written in black crayon](https://sapience.com.au/images/blog/leadership/give-with-your-head-more-than-your-heart-drew-browne-modern-small-business-blog.jpg) ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/give-with-your-head-more-than-your-heart "Give with your head more than your heart") ##  [ Give with your head more than your heart ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/give-with-your-head-more-than-your-heart)

### Beware the rise of the 'Chugger' - (aka the dreaded 'Charity Mugger')

It’s official: Australians are the world’s most generous people.

A study by [Pro Bono Australia](https://probonoaustralia.com.au/) showed we’re the most generous people in the world followed by Ireland, then Canada and then New Zealand. Overall, 76% of Australians had given money to a good cause in the past month, 67% had helped a stranger, and more than a third had volunteered their time to a cause.

Our approach to generosity is even enshrined in one of our favourite idioms, ‘Everyone deserves a fair go’.

Anything else would be, well, un-Australian.

- [ leadership ](https://sapience.com.au/all-tags/leadership)
- [ Modern Small Business ](https://sapience.com.au/modern-small-business-blog)
- [ 🤝 Small Business Risk & Partnership ](https://sapience.com.au/insights/small-business-risk-partnership)
- [ 🌍 Social Leadership & Conscious Business ](https://sapience.com.au/insights/social-leadership-conscious-business)

 [ Read more … ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/give-with-your-head-more-than-your-heart)

  [ ![A photo at dusk of the long range launch of a rocket in the distance framed boy overhead trees wall reflected in water below](https://sapience.com.au/images/blog/leadership/who-is-invested-in-your-business-drewbrowne-modern-small-business.jpg) ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/whos-invested-in-your-business "Whos invested in your business?") ##  [ Whos invested in your business? ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/whos-invested-in-your-business)

### Launching a new idea, new business, new brand — you're trading money for ownership

Watching the launch of a NASA space rocket burn through 80% of its fuel on take-off, just to get off the launch pad, always reminds me of just how much effort is required to launch a business successfully.

The shared determination and the alignment of all involved will be reflected in the success of the launch—or the disaster that misalignment can bring later.

- [ leadership ](https://sapience.com.au/all-tags/leadership)
- [ Modern Small Business ](https://sapience.com.au/modern-small-business-blog)
- [ 🤝 Small Business Risk & Partnership ](https://sapience.com.au/insights/small-business-risk-partnership)

 [ Read more … ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/whos-invested-in-your-business)

  [ ![A close up photo of two daffodil bulbs that have flowered while looking beautiful and golden yellow](https://sapience.com.au/images/blog/leadership/the-evolving-financial-effects-of-prostate-cancer-surgery-and-how-to-mange-this-new-risk-drewbrowne-modern-small-business.jpg) ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/the-evolving-financial-effects-of-prostate-cancer-surgery-and-how-to-mange-this-new-risk "The evolving financial effects of prostate cancer surgery and how to mange this new risk") ##  [ The evolving financial effects of prostate cancer surgery and how to mange this new risk ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/the-evolving-financial-effects-of-prostate-cancer-surgery-and-how-to-mange-this-new-risk)

### How business owners and investors are using the same solution to reduce their own risks

Experiencing prostate cancer has a significant impact upon a man's personal, work, and family life. The sobering fact is 1 man dies every 3 hours from prostate cancer in Australia.

- [ leadership ](https://sapience.com.au/all-tags/leadership)
- [ cancers ](https://sapience.com.au/all-tags/cancers)
- [ Modern Small Business ](https://sapience.com.au/modern-small-business-blog)
- [ 🛡️ Specialist Risk & Insurance ](https://sapience.com.au/insights/specialist-risk-insurance)

 [ Read more … ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/the-evolving-financial-effects-of-prostate-cancer-surgery-and-how-to-mange-this-new-risk)

1. [ What does it mean you have to spend money to make money?](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/what-does-it-mean-you-have-to-spend-money-to-make-money)
2. [ How much money does your business owe you?](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/how-much-money-does-your-business-owe-you)
3. [ What a 9 year old boy taught me about courage](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/what-a-9-year-old-boy-taught-me-about-courage)
4. [ How to protect your business from the natural habits you don’t know you have](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/how-to-protect-your-business-from-the-natural-habits-you-dont-know-you-have)
5. [ 10 Strategies to improve your mental toughness](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/10-strategies-to-improve-your-mental-toughness)
6. [ The irritation of doing good in business](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/the-irritation-of-doing-good-in-business)
7. [ Want the biggest benefit for your buck? Now you're thinking like a philanthropist](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/want-the-biggest-benefit-for-your-buck-now-you-are-thinking-like-a-philanthropist)

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