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January 6, 2024

Don’t Drag Your Feet on Employee Succession

We all hear things differently. Let me illustrate by using an interchange during an employee interview. You’re in person, face to face, across a conference room table. The person across […]

Succession

January 2, 2024

Stopping Is As Important As Starting

It’s a lot easier to start things than to stop them. Starting feels like growth and adventure, and things feel alive. Stopping can feel like loss and failure, but it […]

Clients, Finance, Growing Your Business, Growth, Managing Clients, Managing People

December 18, 2023

How to show appreciation to employees without any profits

If your coffers aren’t quite as full as you’d like at the end of this year, you’re not alone. It has been a tough year for many in our industry, […]

Managing People

December 10, 2023

Skip the ESOP

The intention behind ESOPs is noble, but the vehicle is flawed. That’s the overview. The ESOP (employee stock ownership plan) movement started with some lofty goals, but underneath it all […]

Succession

November 26, 2023

Maximizing Your Pro-Bono Contributions

I love the impact of pro bono work—on you and the recipient—but our practices around the process are really sloppy. Here are some ideas about how to achieve more, while […]

Marketing Yourself

November 19, 2023

Trading Your Unicycle for a Bike

We received this last week, unsolicited, from a client who had just finished up a New Business Audit with us. Not only is his relief palpable, but it occurred to […]

Expertise, Growing Your Business, Marketing

November 13, 2023

How Geography Impacts Positioning

One of the reasons I absolutely love helping firms with positioning is because of the science behind it. I didn’t realize there was so much science until penning the fifth […]

Growth, Marketing, Uncategorized

November 5, 2023

Maximizing Your Sellability

If you’re interested in one day selling the firm you’ve created and built, how do you know when you’ve maximized your potential EBITDA multiple and likelihood of success finding a buyer? If […]

Succession and M&A

October 30, 2023

Don’t Leave Leadership Vacuums

Aristotle once said that “nature abhors a vacuum” and I’m going to borrow that concept here, but apply it to leadership. What I mean is that leadership always happens, and […]

Management

October 23, 2023

The Pros/Cons of Remote Work

I wrote about this a few years ago, and I probably won’t write about it again for four years or so. I’m convinced that we should be unconvinced about the […]

Developing Processes, Managing People

October 9, 2023

Punctuation: A Dose of Our Own Medicine

Rebrands are sufficiently terrifying on their own, but they are particularly terrifying when: So I explained earlier that last week was the final email you’d receive from that domain, and […]

Marketing Yourself

September 30, 2023

Should You Be Dismissing Staff More Quickly?

I was talking to an agency owner about a standing New Years resolution he had. Before the beginning of each new year, he and his business partner had a pact […]

Managing People

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