Private Companies Make Great Acquirers
At least in theory, it is my belief that many mid-market private companies (say companies with headcount numbers in the 80 to 500 bracket) would make great acquirers. I’ll lay my thesis out in a minute. First, let’s be carful about perceived wisdom....
20 Questions To Ask Your CFO
I don’t really care what you call your head of finance. I do care as the CEO, what you should expect from the key financial executive. Scaling a business requires insight into what is happening out there. Think of the finance department as the metrics...
Scaling Businesses Using Projects – 6 Step Tool
The biggest barrier to scaling a business is often the culture. Bad culture allows silo-thinking to dominate. Smart, successful cultures let dynamic, multi-departmental projects be defined and executed in a spirit of collaboration. Egos minimized. Results are key....
Understanding How Family Business Owners Think – Part 2
In this post I’d like to examine a delicate subject, always present in every business, but particularly tricky in family businesses – When is it time for a founder to step aside? It’s not always an age related retirement issue. Recently we’ve...Operational Excellence For Exits
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