I’ve been talking to Tom Deans (best-selling family business book) and John Leonetti (Great book – Exiting Your Business, Protecting Your Wealth) about the renewed interest in exit planning. The next 5 years are an unreasonably important time to be...
Confusion This post was inspired by the recent WSJ article of the same name. Of course it’s a question we are constantly asked. In fact it is a deceptively important question that extracts some pretty weak answers. Ask a panel of CEOs at a conference to...
Running a company is full of risks which all have the potential to cause you sleepless nights. Paradoxically it’s not necessarily the obvious ones that can threaten your existence – the lack of customers, the new legislation, your competitors new...
Well I’m a big fan of the Kindle and Blogging so I thought I’d combine a few posts with some insights that struck me from some great little books I’ve been reading. These clippings might make great quotes for speeches, staff meetings, or just thoughts to inspire...
Remember that an acquisition is just one technique to execute your strategy. Acquisitions fail the same way many strategies fail – execution. Research shows us that reasons for failure include: lack of post acquisition planning, attitude of the seller’s management,...