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Focus on Cash: – BB$M Tip #2

Today’s business conditions are pretty tough and many business leaders are finding their days really long, hectic and very tiring. That’s why it’s too easy to get caught up in the daily grind of activity or become too brain fatigued to focus on key but abstract indicators of business health. Conversely, your situation might be [...]

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Do You Know Where You’re Headed?

You can’t use money brilliantly if you don’t know where you’re going! If your goal is over the horizon, or if you’re in the dark about your markets, competitors or customers, you really need good information fast! That’s the way to make sense of the direction your company is taking and get understand what’s going [...]

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Seek & Speak Only Truth: – BB$M Tip #1

I put this to you as self evident to all: unlike honest truth which rests on fact, lies spawn too many versions to ever manage – so don’t try. This is why any business built on lies or misrepresentation is doomed to fail. If your company is facing challenge, or in significant distress, seeking and [...]

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 Tony Johnston
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 Compass North Inc.


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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Ascent of MoneyAscent of Money
by Niall Ferguson
- get a crash course in the true nature of money and learn what led to the 2008 global credit market crunch and economic recession

Lessons from Private EquityLessons from Private Equity | Bain & Co.
by Orit Gadiesh & Hugh MacArthur
- learn how you too can use the techniques and tools that private equity firms use to drive superior results in short timeframes

Predictably Irrational by Dan ArielyPredictably Irrational
by 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 Fall by Jim CollinsHow the Mightly Fall
by 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.

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