---
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=30"
date: "2026-06-18T11:16:16+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 beautiful white haired cat on a white floor in a cream white room](https://sapience.com.au/images/blog/leadership/diversity-matters-is-your-website-a-little-too-white-drewbrowne-modern-small-business-blog.jpg) ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/diversity-matters-is-your-website-a-little-too-white "Diversity matters – is your website a little too white? ") ##  [ Diversity matters – is your website a little too white? ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/diversity-matters-is-your-website-a-little-too-white)

### How does the world see you? And who does Google say you are?

I have something uncomfortable to confess.

My website feels very 'white', doesn’t it? And no, I’m not talking about the abundance of white space around the text.

I mean, you know … 'White'.

- [ 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/diversity-matters-is-your-website-a-little-too-white)

  [ ![audience members listening attentively to a business speaker](https://sapience.com.au/images/blog/leadership/when-should-a-business-express-an-opinion-on-a-moral-or-social-issue-drewbrowne-modern-small-business-blog.jpg) ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/when-should-a-business-express-an-opinion-on-a-moral-or-social-issue "When should a business express an opinion on a moral or social issue?") ##  [ When should a business express an opinion on a moral or social issue? ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/when-should-a-business-express-an-opinion-on-a-moral-or-social-issue)

### Are morals, ethics, and business bad bedfellows?

> Your customers may have already thought about this —and expect you have too

A few years ago I attended a two-day conference for business owners discussing the importance of valuing ethics and purpose in business ahead of just pure commercial gain.

Things were going great until someone stood up and asked, ‘that question…’

But wait, I'm getting ahead of myself.

- [ leadership ](https://sapience.com.au/all-tags/leadership)
- [ ethics ](https://sapience.com.au/all-tags/ethics)
- [ modern estate planning ](https://sapience.com.au/all-tags/modern-estate-planning)
- [ 🤝 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/when-should-a-business-express-an-opinion-on-a-moral-or-social-issue)

  [ ![demonstrators sitting holding signs 'Black Lives Matter'](https://sapience.com.au/images/blog/leadership/dissenters-and-trouble-makers-are-not-the-same-thing-drewbrowne-modern-small-business-blog.jpg) ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/dissenters-and-trouble-makers-are-not-the-same-thing "Dissenters and trouble makers are not the same thing") ##  [ Dissenters and trouble makers are not the same thing ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/dissenters-and-trouble-makers-are-not-the-same-thing)

### The power of dissent is in the process, not the decision

Your ability to voice disagreement with a colleague in business is a critical process many usually avoid - until a decision hits the fan.

In the real world, disagreeing openly with others – for most people – is uncomfortable and difficult - that probably explains why it’s rare.

- [ leadership ](https://sapience.com.au/all-tags/leadership)
- [ ethics ](https://sapience.com.au/all-tags/ethics)
- [ modern estate planning ](https://sapience.com.au/all-tags/modern-estate-planning)
- [ 🤝 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/dissenters-and-trouble-makers-are-not-the-same-thing)

  [ ![young man sitting on rock looking at the ocean while wearing a cap](https://sapience.com.au/images/blog/leadership/the-business-case-for-becoming-a-present-person-drewbrowne-modern-small-business-blog.jpg) ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/the-business-case-for-becoming-a-present-person "The business case for becoming a present person") ##  [ The business case for becoming a present person ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/the-business-case-for-becoming-a-present-person)

### Regardless of the reason why, the outcome is still better for everyone

It's the one skill that rules them all...

Learning to be present. Why is this a business leadership problem?

Businesses don’t have good ideas – only good people do.

- [ 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/the-business-case-for-becoming-a-present-person)

  [ ![a cranky looking purebred long haired car](https://sapience.com.au/images/blog/leadership/grumpy-cat-and-the-dry-cleaner-drewbrowne-modern-small-business-blog.jpg) ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/grumpy-dry-cleaners-and-the-curse-of-cat-hair "Grumpy Dry Cleaners and the curse of cat hair") ##  [ Grumpy Dry Cleaners and the curse of cat hair ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/grumpy-dry-cleaners-and-the-curse-of-cat-hair)

### Business insights while standing in line, again

Have you ever wondered why you keep going back?

#### (Tales of shame from the Dry Cleaners)

Have you ever been so busy in life that you've forgotten whether you're still enjoying it?

Have you ever found yourself after a less than sparkling customer experience asking yourself, 'why do I keep putting up with this?'

I can relate.

- [ 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/grumpy-dry-cleaners-and-the-curse-of-cat-hair)

  [ ![expensive sports car parked outside a one dollar shop at night](https://sapience.com.au/images/blog/leadership/embrace-your-inner-commodity-you-know-you-have-to-drewbrowne-modern-small-business-blog.jpg) ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/embrace-your-inner-commodity-you-know-you-have-to "Embrace your inner commodity - you know you have to") ##  [ Embrace your inner commodity - you know you have to ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/embrace-your-inner-commodity-you-know-you-have-to)

### Embrace your inner commodity - you know you have to

Death, BAS returns and Commoditisation

If there’s a single word that strikes fear in the heart of every forward-looking business owner more than, ATO Audit or HR Claim - it’s Commoditisation.

It’s like death, but not as you understand it.

- [ 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/embrace-your-inner-commodity-you-know-you-have-to)

1. [ Looking for a business partner for fun times?](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/looking-for-a-business-partner-for-fun-times)
2. [ 5 Ways to see if your idea or an opportunity is worth pursuing](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/5-ways-to-see-if-your-idea-or-an-opportunity-is-worth-pursuing)
3. [ Why just follow your passion is bad career advice](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/why-just-follow-your-passion-is-bad-career-advice)
4. [ Business life is a lot like a game of snakes and ladders](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/business-life-is-a-lot-like-a-game-of-snakes-and-ladders)
5. [ Budgeting for Big Picture People](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/budgeting-for-big-picture-people)
6. [ What do you mean I have to come back to the office to work?](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/what-do-you-mean-i-have-to-come-back-to-the-office-to-work)
7. [ The psychology of good decisions and sticky notes](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/the-psychology-of-good-decisions-and-sticky-notes)

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