Ideas & Stories

Advisory Boards Evolve from Strategy Plans

Last year, a smart young (possibly disbelieving & skeptical) attendee at a Business Strategy Plan asked: “How can we ensure that these issues and the actions arising from this Strategy Plan will be enacted upon”? Excellent question. She …
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A Practical Guide to Post-Business-Exit Planning

Imagine the excitement that accompanies the sale of business process. You have worked so hard to build your business to become Investment Ready.  Years of preparing the succession and sale.  Then the sales program.  Negotiating with the would …
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Using equity as a carrot to keep your best people.

Are you really ready for a ‘partnership’? What steps can you take to optimise success? What price? What terms? How will they pay? So many questions! Perhaps with the general exception of family businesses, sharing equity in a business has …
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The Value of Opportunity

How can it be fair for one child to take ownership in the family business? What about the other kids? Perhaps a hundred years ago, businesses (often farms) were often handed down to the oldest son. It was a way of keeping the business in the …
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