Business Dragons: ...and How to Slay Them

By Lance W. Haverkamp

Your business is finally working. It's also eating you alive. Both things are true at the same time, and that's the part nobody warns you about.

Here's what's actually happening: growth surfaced problems you'd been ignoring, and the problems got loud. Not bad products. Not bad people. Not bad luck. And you can't fight what you can't name-"our marketing isn't working" is a fog, and you can't stab a fog.

So this book names them. Business Dragons-twenty of them, each with a personality, a diet, and a habitat. The Content Drought Dragon feeds on the phrase we'll circle back. The Hiring Hydra nests in your open job postings. The Statement Specter haunts the shoebox of receipts. And the office printer? Start with the printer. It knows what it did.

Inside, you'll find:

A census, not a quiz. Twenty-five plain-language statements; check the ones that sound like your 9 p.m. Now you know which Dragons have moved in-and you're not losing, you're locating.

The Bestiary. One chapter per territory-marketing, staffing and operations, finance, process, tech & practical-each Dragon with its full file: the lore, the symptoms, the strategies, and what actually kills it.

One move per Dragon, Monday morning. No management system to adopt. No forty-step program. Modern, opinionated, specific-the kind of advice you can act on before your coffee gets cold.

Permission to call for backup. When a bookkeeper beats a CPA, when a website company is the wrong hire for a marketing problem, when pride is the most expensive thing in the building.

And underneath all of it, the promise: Dad didn't have a framework. He had thirty years of pain-earned experience-and this book is that experience handed over painless. You get the scar tissue without the scars.

For the owner in the middle of it-revenue rising, team expanding, the squeeze tightening. Not a startup. Not an enterprise. Just you, the business you built, and the Dragons that came with the growth.

They already know you're here. Time to return the favor.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HKC8ZHCK
• ISBN13: 9798175161138
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"