by Jim Schleckser | Apr 7, 2020 | Business, Decision Making, Entrepreneur, Leadership, Strategy
There’s an Easy Way to Calculate How Much You Should Be Making. You might be destroying wealth in your business without realizing it, but here’s how to stop Let me start by asking you what at first might seem like a silly question: Are you destroying...
by Jim Schleckser | Mar 31, 2020 | Leadership
You Need to Have Buffers to Handle the Ups and Downs of Business There are probably dozens of traits that come to mind when you think of what sets great leaders apart from the rest of the pack. But one of the most important things that every great leader...
by Jim Schleckser | Mar 17, 2020 | Advisory Groups
You have to take an objective look at your business before making that decision. Here’s how. At my company, we work with CEOs all the time. Most of them are also founders and entrepreneurs who are still running the companies they started–sometimes...
by Jim Schleckser | Mar 16, 2020 | Advisory Groups
Business crisis: adversity creates opportunity The best leaders understand that a crisis can lead them to the chance to make the kind of large wholesale changes their organization needs. They let the fire do some of the work for them to make the organization receptive...
by Jim Schleckser | Mar 10, 2020 | Business, Decision Making, Negotiation, Succession
When you start to think about selling your company, there are financial buyers and strategic buyers. These two categories of buyers show up at the table. The first is financial buyers, such as private equity firms, which are popular because they are swimming in cash,...