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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."
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date: "2026-06-18T10:00:52+00:00"
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#  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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  [ ![attractive young lady looking at bottles of wine in a store](https://sapience.com.au/images/blog/leadership/looking-for-a-business-partner-for-fun-times-drewbrowne-modern-small-business-blog.jpg) ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/looking-for-a-business-partner-for-fun-times "Looking for a business partner for fun times?") ##  [ Looking for a business partner for fun times? ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/looking-for-a-business-partner-for-fun-times)

### Navigating the new casual business etiquette and the 7 things to look for in a new relationship

When browsing online, I came across an advertisement that seems to echo the desire of many business owners.

They want more from life.

Sometimes reading what other people want, can make for compelling reading.

We all want something.

- [ 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/looking-for-a-business-partner-for-fun-times)

  [ ![the number 5 on a yellow sign](https://sapience.com.au/images/blog/leadership/5-ways-to-see-if-your-idea-or-an-opportunity-is-worth-pursuing-drew-browne-modern-small-business-blog.jpg) ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/5-ways-to-see-if-your-idea-or-an-opportunity-is-worth-pursuing "5 Ways to see if your idea or an opportunity is worth pursuing") ##  [ 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)

### 5 Ways to avoid the happy distraction of a very deep rabbit hole

In business, it doesn’t take long until you get to thinking about ‘new ways to do stuff. New ideas for products, services, and new opportunities always come to mind. And the shiniest ones seem most alluring.

The challenge is sorting these new ideas into the ones you keep, and the ones you don’t.

And then there is the tricky question of implementation.

- [ 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/5-ways-to-see-if-your-idea-or-an-opportunity-is-worth-pursuing)

  [ ![old time 'snake oil' charlatan salesman](https://sapience.com.au/images/blog/leadership/why-just-follow-your-passion-is-bad-career-advice-modern-small-business-blog-drew-browne.jpg) ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/why-just-follow-your-passion-is-bad-career-advice "Why just follow your passion is bad career advice") ##  [ 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)

### Selling half-truths to whole questions

In our connected world of 30 second sound bites and increasingly shortening attention spans, it's difficult to think that some things can't be explained in a tweet and require more discussion. But sadly that doesn't stop some people from trying to sell half an answer to a whole question and expecting nobody to notice.

Perhaps the only thing that makes a half-truth more dangerous is the fact it makes the half-lie more convincing.

- [ 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/why-just-follow-your-passion-is-bad-career-advice)

  [ ![boardgame dice](https://sapience.com.au/images/blog/leadership/life-is-a-lot-like-a-game-of-snakes-and-ladders-drewbrowne-modern-small-business-blog.jpg) ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/business-life-is-a-lot-like-a-game-of-snakes-and-ladders "Business life is a lot like a game of snakes and ladders") ##  [ 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)

### Do you have to be brave or be safe?

The Snakes and Ladders board game has been a traditional favourite for thousands of years. Like all good board games played with dice and others, it’s a game of chance.

- [ 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/business-life-is-a-lot-like-a-game-of-snakes-and-ladders)

  [ ![stacks of paper coffee cups at a cafe](https://sapience.com.au/images/blog/leadership/budgeting-for-big-picture-people-drewbrowne-modern-small-business-blog.jpg) ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/budgeting-for-big-picture-people "Budgeting for Big Picture People") ##  [ Budgeting for Big Picture People ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/budgeting-for-big-picture-people)

### Budgeting for Big Picture People

It's not the amount, it’s the percentages that count

There are some numbers in life you should always remember. Your PIN numbers, your spouse's birthday, (maybe your mother-in-law's birthday), the number of children you have, their birthdays, and quite possibly the annual date for the football grand final.

- [ 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)
- [ 🏠 Wealth Builders & Home Finance ](https://sapience.com.au/insights/wealth-builders-home-finance)

 [ Read more … ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/budgeting-for-big-picture-people)

  [ ![human service robot with big eyes](https://sapience.com.au/images/blog/leadership/what-do-you-mean-i-have-to-come-back-to-the-office-to-work-drew-browne-modern-small-business-blog.jpg) ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/what-do-you-mean-i-have-to-come-back-to-the-office-to-work "What do you mean I have to come back to the office to work?") ##  [ 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)

### The new problem of liking working from home (WFH)

When it comes to building robots that look uncannily similar to humans in facial appearance, the end result usually makes even the most stoic of people uncomfortable, and simply creeps us out. Our sense of being uniquely human is core to our understanding of self, our personal autonomy and our sense of innate value.

Robots purposely made to look a little too human, seem to violate that sensibility.

- [ 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-do-you-mean-i-have-to-come-back-to-the-office-to-work)

1. [ The psychology of good decisions and sticky notes](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/the-psychology-of-good-decisions-and-sticky-notes)
2. [ Taking the 'C word' out of social responsibility](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/taking-the-c-word-out-of-social-responsibility)
3. [ Purpose isn’t everything, but it beats everything else](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/purpose-isnt-everything-but-it-beats-everything-else)
4. [ Patronus spells and the growing awareness nobody is coming to rescue you](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/patronus-spells-and-the-growing-awareness-nobody-is-coming-to-rescue-you)
5. [ 10 Habits to make personal growth automatic](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/10-habits-to-make-personal-growth-automatic)

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