Exit Planning for Business Owners
NEWS SPECIAL: In terms of exit planning and reaping the rewards of entrepreneurial success,”few business owners properly plan the way to get the most out of their business, and lose out in the process”. ********* What business owners need is better, more compassionate, more understanding help to deal with the thorny issues of ownership transition. [...]
CEO Hubris, Fraud & How to Prevent It
According to a new study by researchers from three Canadian universities, the biggest red flag for a potential accounting fraud is a CEO with a truly oversized ego. Can anything be done to guard against this? Yes, here is my recipe for how to better prevent it. ***************** Over-the-top CEO hubris is like an iceberg: [...]
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 [...]
17 Hot Biz Tips for Private Co.s
Welcome to my Guy Kawasaki advice mash-up. These are my take on Guy’s advice for entrepreneurs that he offered during a couple of talks, one he gave at a recent University of Pennsylvania technology conference and the other comes from a series of talks he gave in 2008 for the Montgomery & Hansen‘s online learning [...]
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