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Why Should You Develop a Business Plan for Going Concern, How to Do It, and How Do You Convert the Plan Into Action?

Why Should You Develop a Business Plan? For every startup the development of a business plan is a  required first step. It is so obvious – business schools have course on writing the business plan and it is impossible to … Continue reading

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Coaching Process

What is The Coaching Process? If you like graphical representations, here is an explosion of the key elements in a coaching session. Scroll down (click here instead) below for a narrative description. A Coaching Session A coaching session is a … Continue reading

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Managing Key Personnel – Do What Is Inevitable – evasion and self-deception will not work

Recently I was speaking with the owner of a financial services firm. She has 15 people in her organization which is now almost 18 years old. By any measure a successful firm. She told me about one person who has … Continue reading

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Podcast – What If Agreements – get them in place now, before a what if occurs

Put your Founders’ Agreement in place before the inevitable business conflicts arise.

This podcast is 2 minutes 51 seconds long. The text is available here.

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What If Agreements – get them in place now, before a what if occurs

Just this morning I heard another tale of woe from a business owner who is now entering into legal disputes because a partner is getting divorced. The business is ten years old, healthy, in fact, holds a strong position in a niche … Continue reading

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Podcast – Seven Reasons to Add a CFO – part-time or full – to Your Team

7 Reasons why you need to add a part-time CFO to your business team

This podcast is 7 minutes 20 seconds long

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Seven Reasons to Add a CFO – part-time or full – to Your Team

Many small businesses operate with only a bookkeeper and CPA to manage the finances. The owner or GM fills in, or at least think that they fill in,  for all of the duties of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO). As … Continue reading

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Coaching Case Studies- Process and Results

Engineering Services Firm For the last two years, now well into a third year, I have been working with the two owners of  this niche opto-electronics engineering services firm. We meet regularly using Skype videoconferencing. After being in business for four years, … Continue reading

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Business coaching is what we do. We offer business coaching to owners and managers in small and medium size businesses and non-profits. This coaching is telephone-based with Web support. This means that as required we will review and discuss documents … Continue reading

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Podcast – Multitasking, Too Much Information, Interruptions and High Performance

Multitasking is worse than a myth; it is a fraud and a thief. Other lessons learned

This podcast is 7 minutes 24 seconds long. You can read the text here.

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