Book cover for The Business That Owns You: The Five Keys to Taking It Back by Rob Williams and Justin Maxwell

The Business That Owns You

The Five Keys to Taking It Back

2026 Released
222 Pages
3-4 Hours
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Paperback Available November 5, 2026
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Rethink PressISBN 9781918947144

DO YOU OWN YOUR BUSINESS, OR DOES YOUR BUSINESS OWN YOU?


You've gone beyond the startup phase, yet the demands of growth, your team, and your own ambitions have left you working harder without creating the value, freedom, or wealth you intended.


The Business that Owns You gives you the five keys to building a business that funds the life you really want. Told as a modern parable, this book follows one owner-investor's journey from working in the business that owns him to building one that finally works for him.


Read this book to:

  • Clarify your long-term vision for your business, so you know exactly what you need to do today
  • Prioritize your goals
  • Empower every person on your team to define what "good" looks like for their own role
  • Connect team standards and performance to the numbers that drive value
  • Evaluate your business as an investor would--as an asset that works for you rather than a job that rules you

Rob Williams

Rob Williams is the writer of Suicide Squad and Martian Manhunter for DC Comics, Unfollow for Vertigo and Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor for Titan Comics. His previous work for 2000 AD includes Judge Dredd: Titan, The Grievous Journey Of Ichabod Azrael (And The Dead Left In His Wake) and The Ten-Seconders, and he is currently writing Roy of the Rovers for Rebellion.

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