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How to Create a Family Business Charter
Successful family businesses often create a Family Charter or Family Business Constitution—a written agreement to guide decisions on boards, succession, hiring and more. Read More
Not Making Business Decisions = Making Bad Business Decisions
When Werner Co. faces growing pains, its president avoids making business decisions that could jeopardize the company—but his inaction is still a decision. Read More
Small Business Transitions: Semi Retirement for Entrepreneurs
Before small business owner Jan can improve her life and work balance and enter semi retirement, she must prepare her business to run independently. Read More
How to Find the Right Business Buyer for Your Company
What kind of business buyer should you approach to sell your business? Find out where to meet financial, strategic and operator buyers. Read More
How Family Business Succession Planning Becomes Succession Implementation
Family business succession planning requires discussions about ownership, leadership, payment and other issues to smoothly transition from Gen 1 to Gen 2. Read More
Planning and Staging a Company for Transition
Are you planning to sell your business or otherwise transition its leadership? Here’s how to plan and stage your company for transitioning at maximum value. Read More
Protect Your Family Business with Smart Succession Planning
Clarifying Roles and Responsibilities for Smooth Transitions In family business, a succession plan guarantees continuity. It ensures a smooth transition of leadership so that the business can carry on. Where no succession plan exists, the risk of turbulence and conflict is high. Creating a succession plan is a fairly straightforward but necessary task. It details […] Read More
Business Transition and Exit Planning: Welcome to the Jungle!
BTEP: Where Should You Start? You are a business owner. You have worked hard, possibly for decades, building your business. You are smart, and the business has been successful, but it is time to move on. Perhaps you want to retire; maybe you want to try your hand at something new. Regardless of the reason, […] Read More
Banker, Broker or Sell it Yourself: Choosing the Right Method When Selling Business
So You’re Selling a Business: Now What? For most business owners, selling a business is a once-in-a-lifetime event. These owners want to maximize their proceeds and they may be super salespeople, but likely have little experience selling a business. In fact, their exit may be the only meaningful transaction they experience. This is why it is […] Read More
The Importance of Succession Planning for a Thriving Family Business
Succession Planning Means Looking Beyond the Second Generation Most family businesses don’t make it beyond the second generation. Even fewer reach the third generation of ownership. Why is that? As much as one generation would like to hand the business off to a next-generation family member, the following critical questions are often not adequately considered: […] Read More