Business books by Stephen Deason
The Paid Last Series
For the owner, the future owner, and the people an owner is developing.
Volume One
Residual Claimants
Where it all begins. How the person paid last reasons about people, systems, and money: seeing and supervising the work, making judgment hold through other people, and reasoning from the owner’s side of the ownership line.
Companion
The Realities of Ownership
The Realities from Volume One, set out on their own for the owner’s desk, followed by the harsh truths of the owner’s seat and what owning a company does to a life.
Volume Two · Forthcoming
The Owner’s Arithmetic
Finance, Costing, and Valuation for the Owner-Operator
The numbers behind an owner’s decisions: the financial statements, costing, money over time, valuation, operations, demand, and deciding under uncertainty, for small and medium enterprises.
Volume Three · Forthcoming
Capital and Governance
Law, Tax, Outside Money, and Counterparties
The contracts, entity choices, outside capital, and governance an owner has to get right, from the first agreement signed to the board table.