New $Num,ber.ss Language Coming Soon
Attention CEOs & Business Owners: the language you are using in your financial statements to ‘talk money numbers’ is about to change – so start saying goodbye to GAAP! IFRS is coming and it will cause a big change to how your financial statements are constructed. Consequently, what and how you communicate your company’s financial [...]
Recession Cures: What & What Not to Do
What’s the recession fighting strategy of choice for most business owners? Why, it’s none other than: tell the sales force they have to try harder! That unexpected finding is just one of many coming from a recently completed survey commissioned by Red Wheel Marketing of Toronto, the outsourced marketing management firm. Their July 2009 survey [...]
Recession Recipe: drive more sales
More sales is ‘the’ solution of choice for most CEOs in any tough time. That is why I have written a white paper called “How to Survive the Storm: a focused 7 point game plan for recession proofing your sales pipeline. You can read about my RECESSION ‘RECIPE FOR DRIVING SALES’ and get a copy [...]
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Tony provides executive management and advisory services that help companies get MORE !!
sales / profits / cashflow
financing / exit valuation
Tony delivers the leadership or leadership support needed that can make remarkably outstanding results happen operationally, economically, financially and in the eyes of customers, lenders & transaction counterparties.
If you are a decision maker in a company that wants MORE, give him a call at 416-342-5652 or check out the Compass North Inc website [click here].
Tony's ability to help companies achieve important/challenging goals is well demonstrated by his long record of success, which includes:
- 4 successful turnarounds lead
- $66 mil+ increase public
company's value
- $34 mil value harvested
from biotech cofounded & lead
as CEO
- $12 mil/3x investment gain
in 2 years delivered for
VC partners
- $2.5+ bil in public & private
market debt, equity and
M&A deals done
- 1 successful company IPO
- 4 new businesses organized &
grown: Biotech; Securitization /
Mortgage Servicing; Third-Party
Logistics (3PL); & Consulting
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- learn how you too can use the techniques and tools that private equity firms use to drive superior results in short timeframes
Predictably Irrationalby Dan Ariley
- this wonderful book points out many interesting findings from behavioral economics that help to explain why people behave the way that they do and it is a book that offers a lot of useful insights for anyone who runs their own business.
How the Mightly Fallby Jim Collins
- this book presents the well-founded hope that leaders can learn how to stave off decline and, if they find themselves falling, reverse their course – in part by understanding the five step-wise stages of decline uncovered in the four year research project behind the book.
