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Steve Mills

Board member, Independent Board Member

Search every verified Steve Mills interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Steve Mills, a board member at Independent Board Member, hosted an episode of the Results Mastery podcast on October 9, 2026, featuring business advisor Peter Smith. During the interview, Mills discussed challenges facing small businesses and recommended Smith's books. He also shared advice from a former manager about setting aside 20% of monthly income for profit, VAT, and corporation tax into separate accounts to identify financial issues early. In the conversation, Mills stated that after over 30 years in large businesses, he found that money and people are the two key factors regardless of business size, noting that without available cash a business is "dead on its feet." He also said he simplifies change into three categories: how society is changing in terms of markets and in terms of recruiting new people, observing that recruiting someone at 16, 20, or 24 differs from past approaches.

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“I simplify things because I say well okay what are the changes and there are only three changes actually that we have to deal with. One is how society's changing because we constantly have to review our business in terms of how society's changing and how society is not just changing in terms of markets but how society is changing in terms of people bringing new people on recruits. I think some of our members will rea”

“I did spend over 30 years with a large business, but there are some things that are common. One of the things I found when I was a manager at 24, I had five people working for me then, but I found that it was about money and people. I mean, it doesn't matter how big the business is, there are two things that are key. One is money. Because if you're in a small to medium business or a large business, if you don't have ”

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