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7 benefits of exit planning
Previously, we explored how exit planning doesn’t necessarily mean selling your business. Rather, a good exit plan is an important business planning tool, helping you build a more valuable, efficient (and, yes, sellable) business. Here are seven reasons to start...
Why do I need an exit plan if I’m nowhere near ready to sell?
Picture an ‘exit’ sign. Visualise those four letters above a doorway. What’s the first thing you think of? Chances are you think of something being over, finished and done with; ‘exit’ means there’s nothing more to see or do. Your work here is done. When you have...
Strictly business: partnering with another company to drive growth
Even if sequins and Paso Dobles aren’t your thing, there’s no escaping the Strictly Come Dancing partnerships at this time of year. As business owners, we often think of ourselves as soloists, dancing to our own tune if you like. But why go it alone when a...
In it together: When your life partner is also your business partner
In the past few years, a high proportion of our clients’ businesses have been owned and run by wife-and-husband teams or life partners. The relative degree of day-to-day involvement for each partner may vary, but both are typically equal owners and directors of the...
5 things to stop doing to accelerate growth
How busy are you? Do you have so much on your plate that the list of things to do never gets any smaller, yet your business isn’t growing at the rate you expect? Are you suffering the fate of the ‘busy fool’? If you’re looking to accelerate business growth,...
How do you create, manage and deliver a high-performance culture?
As Peter Drucker once wrote, leadership is ‘the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard’. For business owners who want to foster a high-performance culture, this ability to raise performance, individual by individual and team by team, is absolutely...
Business owners, how clear is your vision?
Do you have a clear vision of where you’re going? Some business owners do and some don’t. When I start working with a client, if their vision is a blurry, vague picture, without a distinct destination or route towards it, I start by helping them clarify that...
9 reasons why your business plan is your best friend
Just last week I was talking to a business owner who had been running their business for three years and had never done a business plan. And that scenario is not as uncommon as you might think; some people just don’t plan their business. Yet, a business plan is so...
Why your summer holiday is the ideal exit planning test
All this month I’ve been looking at how business owners often struggle to take time away from their business. To round off this month’s ‘holiday’ theme, I’d like to talk about how the inability to take a break relates to the bigger picture of owning and running a...
7 ways to make your business less dependent on you
This month I’ve been exploring topics related to holidays – particularly how business owners can often find it difficult to take time away from their business. If you struggle to take a holiday, or if you find yourself worrying about the business while you’re...
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