• Retiring from Your Business with Purpose.
    May 8 2023

    Let's say that you successfully exit your company into retirement

    • When you want,
    • With the total after-tax income you want.
    • What now? The third must-have in a great exit plan is a discerned purpose for the next chapter of your life . . . Something that makes life in retirement meaningful, satisfying - even fun.
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    17 mins
  • The Goals of a Great Exit Plan
    May 2 2023

    Find out the three goals every business exit or transition plan should include.
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    16 mins
  • One Day, Your Kids May Be Working Together – Teach them now to use conflict as a positive.
    Apr 20 2023

    Every family - like every other kind of organization - has conflict. Rather than eliminate conflict, teach your kids to keep conflict from becoming personal. If you do, and they wind up running the family business one day, that business is more likely to survive and thrive. 

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    17 mins
  • Tammy Wynette and Family Business Sustainability
    Apr 19 2023

     If anyone in your family – say a child or grandchild – is in a troubled marriage and could be headed for divorce, you may have a threat to your business to deal with. 

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    20 mins
  • Control the Result, and Care for Your Stakeholders if You Leave on Your Shield
    Apr 13 2022

    I love helping leaders of family-owned businesses exit their companies into a great retirement, and it's a rush helping a leader make his business into one that is self-managing- one that gives him or her the freedom to be present again at dance recitals and family gatherings. Sometimes, though, the leader of a family-owned business leaves on his shield because of his or her death, long-term illness, or disability. Here is some thinking on how to maintain control and care for your stakeholders if you don't leave on your feet.

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    19 mins
  • The Importance of a "Kick-Ass" Team to the Value of Your Business
    Feb 23 2022

    An expert venture capitalist recently opined that of all the factors that determined the success or failure of a deal, the most important of all was the presence of a founder with the leadership ability to build  -  and this is a technical term - a kick-ass team. Let's talk about that.

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  • Maybe we should rethink the "rethinking" about the pandemic office. - Part 2
    Feb 8 2022

    In this episode, we talk about the challenges to productivity, innovation, and morale presented by the WFH/remote teams rage. Then we take a look at the hybrid office idea and how it balances the savings of remote teams with the proven value of in-person contact for team members, and greater value for customers/clients, and owners/managers/team leaders. 

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    20 mins
  • Maybe we should rethink the "rethinking" about the pandemic office. - Part 1
    Feb 1 2022

    An article in the March-April 2021 edition of Harvard Business Review has us thinking - Maybe all this work from home, zoom calls, and socially-distanced space allocation is too much of a good thing. In part 1 of this series we look at the downside of where we are and in part 2 we think about using concepts such as the hybrid office to increase the value of your business.

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    15 mins