The Pattern I Keep Seeing in Small Business Books

The Pattern I Keep Seeing in Small Business Booksby: Donna HarrisPublished on: 29/07/2026

After 25 years of looking at small business books, certain patterns show up again and again. Not fraud. Not negligence. Just the quiet, accumulated ways that financial records drift from reality — and what they cost the business owners who don't know

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The Pattern I Keep Seeing in Small Business Books