by Jim Schleckser | Apr 21, 2020 | Business
Do Not Attribute Malice In my work with leaders, both inside and outside of the workplace, I’ve encountered a common pattern where when something doesn’t go right, those leaders will attribute another person’s behavior to malice. In other words, they...
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 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,...
by Jim Schleckser | Feb 25, 2020 | Business
Gossip and Social Influencers hold the key Jim Haudan of Root Learning, a phenomenal speaker and strategic change leader, likes to say: “People will tolerate the conclusions of their leaders, but they will act on their own”. This is a profound statement...
by Jim Schleckser | Dec 13, 2019 | Business
Interests shift over time – you need to be prepared. I was recently working with the two founders of an entrepreneurial company. Between the two of them, they still owned most of the company. While they had grown the company substantially since its inception,...
by Jim Schleckser | Dec 12, 2019 | Business
Just being 10%-15% better or cheaper is not going to cut it. Again: make them an offer they can’t refuse to grow your business. I’m sure you can recall the famous line uttered in the classic movie, The Godfather, where Don Vito Corleone played by Marlon...
