Many successful business owners try to answer the question ‘How do I get my company to the next level?’. Many owners exhaust themselves and their resources each year, pushing their businesses to perform at higher and higher levels. However, there are a number of...
John Foster

Are You Building Equity or Income in Your Business?
Many business owners run their businesses based on their current lifestyle needs. However, when you begin to consider who will own your business after you, i.e. your exit from your business, you need to ask yourself whether you are focused on creating a stream of...

Today’s Transaction Preparation for Owners
Today’s business owners are becoming more and more aware that preparing their companies for a sale has a lot of benefit to them and their businesses. In fact, with the growing marketplace of ‘exit planners’ – professional advisors who help business owners prepare for...

EOS® Implementation: EOS Implementer®, EOS® Integrator™, or DIY?
What is EOS®? The Entrepreneurial Operating System® is a methodology and toolset for running a business. While parts of it can be used for any size business, typically businesses that are 300 employees or less adopt it. It is made up of Six Key Components™: Vision –...
What Your Future Buyer May be Looking For From YOU (not your Company) in Your Exit
Owners who think about exiting their business should wonder who the future owner will be and what will they be interested in when acquiring the business. These future buyers will consider both the company that you run as well as, potentially, how you run it in making...
Can I Afford to Exit My Business Today? Five (5) Questions to Begin Planning Your Exit
An exit from a privately-held business is a complex decision. Each exiting owner will have a unique relationship with their company as well as their community, family, employees, managers, vendors, customers, and others who are tied to that successful business....
Thinking Strategically About Your Exit While Economic Recovery Is Still Occurring
This newsletter is for owners who have the majority of their wealth locked in their privately-held business and are postponing planning for their future because of today’s difficult recession and slow recovery. A planning process, in essence, is one that looks out...

Diversity and Inclusion
I know I’m a bit late in wishing you all a Happy New Year but who amongst us hasn’t been late a time or two? If you have been reading these newsletters for any length of time you know that sustainable growth is one of my passions and linked to that is developing a...

Moving from “transaction” to “meaning”
The article below does a great job of introducing the practice of rituals to move us from “transaction” to “meaning” and I think you’ll enjoy reading about the different ways it can apply in the workplace and serendipity of discoveries made along the way. In addition...
Wealth Gap
The last couple of years has been frothy for M&A. As far as disclaimers go, you would do well to remember that past performance is not indicative of future results. This month we touch on the impact inflation, interest rates, disruptions in the supply chain and...
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