Creating the Team to Sell Your Business

Selling a business is a bit like running a business If you don’t have a good team in place, all kinds of things can go wrong. And when things go wrong, value disappears, valued employees leave, and customers lose confidence. When enough mistakes pile up, the business itself can deteriorate and everyone loses. Believe us; we have seen this happen and we’re sure you have too.

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Refine Your Metrics Into Gold

Enjoy this series of shorts on Metrics from Jim.

To deliver the results you want, refine your metrics (KPIs) like you’d refine ore into gold. Your metrics must directly impact the most vital outcomes in your business; otherwise they are nothing more than an expensive toy, misdirecting your scarce resources.

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How to Ration Capital in an Idea Rich Environment

One of the most critical decisions executive teams make is how to allocate resources. This includes both tangible (physical and financial) and intangible (human and intellectual) resources. In this article we’ll focus on developing the inputs, processes and a tool to help your leadership team in the following ways:

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Your Trigger Alert: Disruption - The Good and The Bad

Enjoy this series of shorts on Strategy from Jim.

If you’re a leader, your biggest challenge to success isn’t competition, poor execution, weak product design, or (insert other concern here). It is, says Joth Ricci, disruption. Disruption that can be either good or bad. (Joth is the successful head of three companies, one at a time).

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