by Jim Schleckser | Jul 18, 2019 | Acquisitions
Or, a pig with lipstick is still a pig I have worked with a number of CEOs who have gone through the sale of their business. And one of the questions I get asked by people going through this process is about whether they should be doing any advance work inside the...
by Jim Schleckser | Jul 9, 2019 | Board of Directors, Business, Culture
I have written before about advisory boards and the steps you can take toward evolving that board into a more formal, fiduciary board for your business. But there are also steps you can take in the near-term to leverage your board in a different way to help grow your...
by Jim Schleckser | Jul 5, 2019 | Leadership
You may have unwittingly handed over control. Anytime we create a new board or committee, we inevitably skew toward using an odd number. And there’s a good precedent for why we do this: we need an odd number to break a tie. There’s a reason, for example,...
by Jim Schleckser | Jun 11, 2019 | Advisory Groups, Board of Directors, Growth
I’ve written before about whether you need an advisory board or not. As your company grows, there is actually a natural evolution in the kind of board your company needs. It’s been my experience observing thousands of companies that there are actually three levels of...
by Jim Schleckser | Jun 2, 2019 | Culture, Decision Making, Delegation, HR, Leadership, Talent
One of the fundamental management tenants I have used in my career, something I originally first learned from one my large and successful customers, is that you don’t want to have two managers in a row that don’t know. Let me explain what I mean by that....
