{"id":6315,"date":"2010-03-09T10:16:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T08:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=6315"},"modified":"2010-03-09T10:16:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T08:16:57","slug":"how-do-business-owners-define-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/03\/09\/how-do-business-owners-define-success\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do Business Owners Define Success?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpatrendlines.com\/2010\/03\/06\/how-do-business-owners-define-success\/\"> How Do Business Owners Define Success? : CPA Trendlines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>US accountancy web site CPA Trendlines features a fascinating graph resulting from a survey by  the Enterprise Council on Small Business.  They asked business owners to define what satisfaction means to them. Business owners said maintaining a healthy work\/life balance was the single biggest factor in their definition of success.<\/p>\n<p>CPA says that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>surprisingly found that &ldquo;satisfaction&rdquo; was the primary way that they defined success, followed by &ldquo;growth.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The overall result was:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cpatrendlines.com\/2010\/03\/06\/how-do-business-owners-define-success\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cpatrendlines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/job-satisfaction.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I don't find this surprising at all. If people maximise it is their overall well-being that they seek to enhance. The myth of profit maximisation is just that: a myth. It's one perpetuated by big business as an argument for unbridled growth. But no one in their right minds thinks it enhances well being.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hat tip to Dennis Howlett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Do Business Owners Define Success? : CPA Trendlines. US accountancy web site CPA Trendlines features a fascinating graph resulting from a survey by the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/03\/09\/how-do-business-owners-define-success\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountancy","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}