From the outside, your business looks busy and successful. On the inside, it can feel like you're white-knuckling the wheel—chasing jobs, fighting fires, watching cash come and go, and wondering if this whole thing is actually working for you.

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From White-Knuckle to Well-Run is a practical story-guide for SMB owners who are tired of running on adrenaline and guesswork. Through the fictional—but very familiar—company Evergreen Millworks, you'll watch a real-world-style business owner learn to:

• See the whole business on a single, clear page

• Understand where the money really goes (and why profit feels thin)

• Stop saying yes to work that quietly hurts the company

• Price with more confidence instead of fear and discounting

• Match sales promises to real production capacity

• Build a simple leadership rhythm so everything doesn't rely on one heroic owner

• Put guardrails around cash, risk, key people, and the owner's own future

 

Each chapter reads like sitting in on Evergreen's leadership meetings—then turning to your own business with plain-language tools you can start using next Monday.

 

You don't need an MBA or a giant team to build a well-run company. You need a clearer way to see what's really going on, a handful of honest conversations, and practical tools that fit the size of your business and your life.

 

This book gives you all three.