Your Owner Independence Assessment Result
Your business may be profitable, established, and valuable.
But if customers, employees, knowledge, relationships, and important decisions still depend heavily on you, much of that value may still be attached to the owner rather than the company.
Answer 12 quick questions to see your Owner Independence Score.
The real succession question is not simply:
Who owns the company after you?
It is:
What happens to the company when you are no longer the person running it?
That can become uncomfortable when you begin looking closely.
A successor would inherit a business that still requires the previous owner to make it work.
This is why profitable businesses can still be difficult to sell, transfer, or transition.
The company may have value.
But the owner’s continued involvement is still part of that value proposition.
Puede helps separate the operation of the business from the person who built it.
That can include:
01
Identify the knowledge, relationships, responsibilities, and decisions concentrated in the owner or other critical individuals.
02
Develop the leadership structure required to operate without the founder at the center.
03
Move critical knowledge into systems, processes, documentation, and defined responsibilities.
04
Create reporting that allows future leadership or ownership to understand and manage the company.
05
Build a practical transition plan around leadership, ownership, responsibilities, and continuity.
But you do need to create a company that gives you options.
Tell us a little about your business and we’ll talk through what it would take to reduce its dependence on you.
Most owner-dependent businesses do not fit neatly into one category. Your assessment identified the issue most likely to be limiting your independence today, but other dependencies may exist alongside it.
