In this episode of The Owner’s Playbook, Carol Dewey breaks down one of the most powerful drivers of company value: Monopoly Control — your competitive moat.

Monopoly Control is your pricing power. It’s what protects your profits, strengthens your valuation, and makes your business the first, best, or only choice in your market. Carol explains why specialization beats generalization, how buyers evaluate defensibility, and how owners can move from commodity to category leader.

1. Monopoly Control = your unfair advantage
2. If you compete on price alone, you’re a commodity
3. The three forms of control: Brand, Process, and Relationship
4. Specialization increases profitability and valuation
5. Buyers pay premiums for defensible, niche-focused businesses

Ask yourself:

1. What makes my business the first—or only—choice?
2. What makes it difficult to compete with me?
3. What part of my process is truly unique?
4. Have I documented and protected that uniqueness?

Clarity creates leverage. Focus creates value.

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In Part 2 of the Hub and Spoke series, Carol Dewey focuses on how business owners break free from owner dependence by evolving their leadership. This episode shifts from diagnosis to solution—showing why scaling a business requires scaling the owner first.

Carol explains how moving from operator to architect unlocks growth, enterprise value, and personal freedom, and why leadership capacity—not effort—is the true ceiling for most businesses.

1. The hub-and-spoke model limits scale and exit value
2. Businesses don’t outgrow owners—they outgrow leadership
3. Delegation of decisions matters more than delegation of tasks
4. Systems and leadership infrastructure create freedom
5. Owner independence increases enterprise value

Identify the decisions, approvals, and responsibilities that still rely on you. Those are your leadership bottlenecks—and your biggest opportunity for growth.

This episode continues the foundation for building a business that can scale, sell, or run without daily owner involvement—setting the stage for deeper leadership and value-building strategies ahead.

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In this episode, Carol Dewey breaks down one of the most common—and costly—business owner traps: the hub and spoke model, where the owner becomes the center of every decision, relationship, and operation. While this structure may work early on, it eventually limits growth, reduces enterprise value, and traps owners inside their own businesses.

Carol explains why owner dependence kills scalability and exit potential, and why the real constraint isn’t the business—it’s leadership capacity. This episode challenges owners to shift from operator to architect, laying the foundation for freedom, value, and sustainable growth.

Hub and Spoke Part 1

1. When everything runs through you, your business can’t scale
2. Owner dependence reduces enterprise value and exit potential
3. High income does not equal high value
4. Your business will never outgrow your leadership capacity
5. Freedom comes from systems, delegation, and leadership—not more hustle
6. Hub and Spoke Part 1

Draw your business as it operates today. Highlight everything that still depends on you. That visual reveals both your growth ceiling—and your path to freedom.

Hub and Spoke Part 1

In Part 2, Carol explores the Leadership Formula—the qualities that transform owners from bottlenecks into builders of scalable, valuable enterprises.

Hub and Spoke Part 1

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