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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."
url: "https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business?start=42"
date: "2026-06-18T11:06:58+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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  [ ![smiling face behind a green stickly note with as smiling face drawn in black ink](https://sapience.com.au/images/blog/leadership/the-psychology-of-good-decisions-and-sticky-notes-sapience-modern-small-business.jpg) ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/the-psychology-of-good-decisions-and-sticky-notes "The psychology of good decisions and sticky notes") ##  [ The psychology of good decisions and sticky notes ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/the-psychology-of-good-decisions-and-sticky-notes)

### Understanding the psychology of making good decisions

Ask many men ‘how they are feeling’ and they'll tell you ‘how they are thinking’ - because they don't understand the question.

The problem we face traditionally as men is, ‘How you think determines how you make decisions, so what determines how you think has a more direct and measurable impact upon your business then you may first, well, ‘Think’.

So how do we improve the quality and speed of the decisions we’re making every day, while decreasing decision overload? How do we know if we’re building the right service or product? – Such questions fundamentally come down to the quality of our decisions.

- [ 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/the-psychology-of-good-decisions-and-sticky-notes)

  [ ![shocked young lady reading](https://sapience.com.au/images/blog/leadership/taking-the-c-word-out-of-social-responsibility-drewbrowne-modern-small-business-sapience-modern-small-business-blog.jpg) ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/taking-the-c-word-out-of-social-responsibility "Taking the 'C word' out of social responsibility") ##  [ Taking the 'C word' out of social responsibility ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/taking-the-c-word-out-of-social-responsibility)

### Surprise: Small Businesses are not just small corporations

Modern Small Businesses are not miniature versions of big business or large **corporate** organisations. And using the 'C word' in small business never gets you very far in the right direction.

Trying to apply the dysfunctional processes and slow responding mindsets of corporates to a Modern Small Business doesn’t work.

So how relevant is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to Small Businesses?

- [ 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/taking-the-c-word-out-of-social-responsibility)

  [ ![arms reaching up to the stars on a clear night](https://sapience.com.au/images/blog/leadership/purpose-is-not-everything-but-it-beats-everything-else-drewbrowne-modern-small-business-blog.jpg) ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/purpose-isnt-everything-but-it-beats-everything-else "Purpose isn’t everything, but it beats everything else") ##  [ 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)

### Following your north-star in a very crowded world

Do you ever get the feeling that time is speeding up?

The major transitions in human history have been driven by the need to domesticate cattle and plants, the large-scale mechanisation of jobs; and now the immediate dissemination of information around the world upon demand.

With the arrival of each new age, the speed of change has left us wondering, where is this all going?

- [ 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/purpose-isnt-everything-but-it-beats-everything-else)

  [ ![fire breathing dragon at Harry Potters Diagon Alley](https://sapience.com.au/images/blog/leadership/patronus-spells-and-the-growing-awareness-that-nobody-is-coming-to-rescue-you-drewbrowne-modern-small-business-blog.jpg) ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/patronus-spells-and-the-growing-awareness-nobody-is-coming-to-rescue-you "Patronus spells and the growing awareness nobody is coming to rescue you") ##  [ 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)

### What's your defense against the dark arts, in business?

Ever had a bad day at the office? Ever had a tough week?

Maybe the last 2 years in business haven’t been what you hoped for.

Perhaps Harry Potter and his mates 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)

 [ Read more … ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/patronus-spells-and-the-growing-awareness-nobody-is-coming-to-rescue-you)

  [ ![intricate variety of succulents growing together in a plant terrarium](https://sapience.com.au/images/blog/leadership/10-habits-to-make-growth-automatic-drewbrowne-modern-small-business-blog.jpg) ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/10-habits-to-make-personal-growth-automatic "10 Habits to make personal growth automatic") ##  [ 10 Habits to make personal growth automatic ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/10-habits-to-make-personal-growth-automatic)

### Growth

> We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and everyone should be really excellent. Because this is our life. ― Steve Jobs

- [ leadership ](https://sapience.com.au/all-tags/leadership)
- [ ethics ](https://sapience.com.au/all-tags/ethics)
- [ Modern Small Business ](https://sapience.com.au/modern-small-business-blog)
- [ 🏠 Wealth Builders & Home Finance ](https://sapience.com.au/insights/wealth-builders-home-finance)

 [ Read more … ](https://sapience.com.au/blog/modern-small-business/10-habits-to-make-personal-growth-automatic)

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