Where SME support usually breaks
The pattern is consistent across sectors: the owner is the fastest person at every task, so every task ends up with the owner. Enquiries get answered late in the evening, invoices go out a fortnight after the job, and the filing waits for a quiet week that never comes.
None of that is a discipline problem. It is a capacity problem, and it is solved by moving a small number of defined, repeatable jobs to someone whose only role is to do them on a fixed rhythm.
