The Personal MBA

The Personal MBA gives readers a wide map of how a business works. Kaufman covers value, sales, money, systems, people, and the way all those parts affect one another. I like it as a shelf reference because an owner can return to the section needed today. The range is so broad that no owner needs to master every chapter before improving the company. The practical goal is to understand enough to ask good questions and connect the pieces. A buyer will care less about the owner's business vocabulary than whether the business actually works without that owner.