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Growing Corn or Creating Leaders?

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The leadership shift that turns six-figure earners into seven-figure builders.
By Bob Snyder
Two farmers owned adjoining fields of corn. The first farmer was known as Boss farmer. His fields were flawless. The rows were straight, the spacing perfect, the irrigation exact. Every inch of his farm reflected discipline and control. Workers followed his instructions carefully, and he inspected everything they did. Nothing escaped his eye. If his workers made mistakes, they were fired and replaced.
Next door lived another farmer. His fields looked… different. The rows wandered a bit. Some patches were overwatered while others looked slightly dry. From a distance, you could tell the field lacked the precision of Boss farmer’s corn fields.
Boss farmer eventually walked over to visit his neighbor, Dad Farmer. He pointed out the crooked rows. The uneven spacing. The imperfections in the crop. When he finished listing the problems, he shook his head and said, “You’d have a much better harvest if you ran this place properly.” The Dad farmer listened patiently. Then he smiled and said something the Boss farmer had never considered.
“Oh, I see the problem,” he said. “You think I’m growing corn.” He gestured toward the field where his five teenage sons were working.

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Top 500+ Largest Direct Sales Companies in the World 2026 (Based on 2025 Revenue)

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Business For Home Updates the Top 500 Global Direct Selling Companies’ Revenues for 2026: How to Submit 2025 Revenue Data. 
Each year, Business For Home updates its global company revenues rankings to reflect the most current picture of company size, momentum, and market position across the direct selling profession.
Business For Home’s global company revenue list is always published in U.S. dollars (USD) and updated in real time. This means that when we validate, add, or adjust a company’s revenue, the information is updated immediately, while the momentum rankings list updates once daily.
The figures currently shown below reflect what we know at this time, based on reported 2025 revenue, current trends, and industry insight, and the list will continue to be updated regularly as additional information is received and verified.
We receive revenue information directly from CEOs, CFOs, and other senior corporate executives, as well as research from other reliable industry sources, including public filings, disclosures and recognized trade publications. For some privately held companies, revenue may be estimated, based on available public information and input from knowledgeable industry sources. In these cases, it is estimated conservatively.
*NOTE: When a company does not provide updated revenue information for 2025, we may temporarily continue to display

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Why ‘my business is my retirement’ could be the riskiest plan of all

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By Kevin Harrington on Small Business UK – Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs

Around one third of SME owners in the UK are now over 55, with an estimated 1.3 to 1.5 million businesses owned by people approaching retirement age.

Research by Prudential found that 27 per cent of UK business owners prioritise investing money into their businesses over saving into pensions, and 19 per cent openly describe their business as their pension fund.

Many business owners don’t just lack a pension, they also overestimate what their business is worth.

Now is the time to pressure-test your business. Get a realistic valuation. Understand the gap between what your business is worth today and what you actually need to retire comfortably. Then start closing that gap, whether by building business value, topping up personal pension savings, or ideally both.

In the UK, there are three types of pensions: defined contribution, defined benefit, and the state pension. But walk into any room of SME owners and you’ll quickly discover there’s an unofficial fourth option – the belief that ‘my business is my pension’.

It’s a seductive idea. You’ve spent decades building something from nothing. The logic feels sound: when you’re ready to stop, you

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