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Selling your business isn’t just a financial transaction — it’s the final test of your years (or decades) of hard work. But I talk to many business owners who see it much like selling a car: Wait until you want to get rid of it (the worst time to start this process…) take a guess at what price you could get, stick it on a marketplace and hope for the best.  But, unlike selling a car, when it comes to your business: who you sell to can make a huge difference in the valuation.

M&A is often seen as something that only Big Corporates and institutional investors do, and is based on the dark and mysterious art of financial engineering. 

A re-frame of the concept of "People Management"

Sarah Wynn-Williams had a front-row seat in the evolution of Facebook from 2011 – 2017. In the chaos of the Christchurch earthquakes in...

A client dropped this gem on me recently: "You can't steer a parked car." This is a profound truth about progress, decision-making, and...

As a business owner, the more valuable you make yourself to the daily operations, the less valuable your business becomes. The best time to

All successful athletes employ coaches. Why? Because they are driven to get the very best out of themselves. And the best CEO's and...

For many small business owners, entrepreneurs, startups looking to harness the expertise of seasoned professionals without having to...

Individual Consultants using AI (GPT-4) to help them on "realistic consulting tasks" were 25% faster and 40% higher quality work than those