by johnireland | Articles
The Risk Hiding in Your Best Relationships Every business owner has favourite clients. The ones who pay on time, refer others, and account for a reliable chunk of monthly revenue. They feel like the foundation of the business — and in many ways, they are. But there is...
by johnireland | Articles
The Book Simon Sinek’s Start with Why was published in 2009 and has sold over a million copies worldwide. It began as a TED Talk — now the third most-viewed TED Talk in history with over 60 million views — and makes a deceptively simple argument: the most...
by johnireland | Articles
You Are Not Retiring from a Job — You Are Retiring from an Identity When an employee retires, they leave a role. When a business owner retires, they leave an identity. For decades, the answer to “what do you do?” has been inseparable from “who are...
by johnireland | Articles
What Changed in November 2025 Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs) have been one of the fastest-growing exit routes for UK business owners since their introduction in 2014. Inspired by the John Lewis Partnership model, EOTs allow owners to sell their company to a trust...
by johnireland | Business Builder
The Succession Wave Is Real Nearly a third of UK SME owners aged 43 and over plan to sell within five years. That is roughly 58,000 mid-sized businesses approaching an ownership change, all at a time when the tax cost of selling or passing on a business has increased...
