by Jim Schleckser | Oct 16, 2018 | Acquisitions, Business, Entrepreneur, Private Equity
In today’s market, if you’re contemplating selling your business you’re probably thinking of finding a strategic buyer for your business because they are likely to pay the most money. But there is a ton of money in private equity, PE, firms these...
by Jim Schleckser | Sep 11, 2018 | Business
How Much Debt Can Your Business Handle? In my book, Great CEOs Are Lazy, I talk about how most great business models rely on very low or even no capital requirements at all. Rather, they can grow based solely on their high margins and the cash they generate through...
by Jim Schleckser | Aug 17, 2018 | Business
It’s Not Just Harder – It’s 3 Times Harder Over my career as a business leader, I have done business in 27 different countries and just about every business I was involved in worked overseas in some capacity. So my piece of advice here today may seem...
by Jim Schleckser | Aug 3, 2018 | Business
You are silently communicating how you value people’s time. For some of us, the world can be divided into two kinds of people: those of us who show up on time, and those of us who are late. English writer Edward Verrall Lucas had a view on lateness, “I...
by Jim Schleckser | Jul 31, 2018 | Acquisitions, Business, Entrepreneur, Growth
Whenever a business is bought or sold, there’s always a negotiation involved in setting the final price. Typically, the seller tries to maximize the price of the business based on their amazing forecast results while the buyer wants to pay as little as possible...
by Jim Schleckser | Jul 5, 2018 | Business
Put the bottom line up front to be a great communicator. When most people communicate or have an update to share at work, either in an email or with a verbal report, they love to share their entire intellectual journey. They tend to start at the beginning, and then...
