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Owner Dependency Quiz
A business can look healthy on the outside and still carry too much through one person. This short quiz asks eight practical questions about how your business actually runs day to day, and gives you a plain, honest look at where dependency on you might be building up.
This is not a personality test and not a professional diagnosis. It is a starting point for your own judgement, based on the same patterns we see across owner run businesses.
The Government's 2024 Small Business Survey found that 69% of UK businesses with 1 to 249 employees had no director in day to day control who was not also an owner or partner. That does not make them badly run or overly reliant on their owners. It shows how often day to day control stays with the people who own the business.
Source: Department for Business and Trade, Longitudinal Small Business Survey 2024: SME employers, published September 2025.
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Book a 30 minute conversationThis is a general reflection tool based on common patterns in owner run businesses, not a professional assessment of your specific business. It does not replace qualified financial, legal or commercial advice.
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