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As a business owner, you know what it’s like to lie awake at 2 a.m. Maybe it has happened when you are excited and full of new ideas for your business. More often, it’s because you are worried about issues you will face the next day. Sometimes, it’s because you just woke up with the solution to a problem. I’ve experienced all those emotions about my businesses over the years. Awake at 2 o’clock? is where I share them with you, and hopefully help with answers that will let you sleep.
John F. Dini, CExP, CEPA
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Small business owners are the Hunters of the 21st century. We are 3% of the US population, and yet we create over half of all American jobs. As Hunters, we may not be inclined to manage by the numbers or stick to systems. Are you a Hunter or a Farmer?
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How prepared are you to exit your company?
The Assessment breaks down the four major categories of exit readiness; Finance, Planning, Operations and Revenue/Profit.
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An Army of One
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Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder (Not!)
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Good discussion. I am especially interested and working on ways to effectively use remote technologies like Skype, webex, and communicator.
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The Seven Questions of Simple Planning
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Excellent advice, John. I offer my clients a less rigorous first step, not nearly as good as yours. It too is designed to get their toe in the water, in hopes they will engage in the process and expand upon it. On one page they list the two or three most important accomplishments for the year; then the two or three shortfalls for the year; then the two or three most important goals for the upcoming year.
Good piece. To be successful in the long run, the super hero needs to trust someone to do the day to day planning and keep the business moving forward, while he or she goes on to the next “mission impossible”.
Having worked in large Multi Nationals in Senior Exec roles through to Pre IPO organisations and now my own start up in the Executive Search Space, I think this article is right to the point, when are putting out grass fires all day it is hard to get time out too look out over the top of the forest, but without this time and time for planning when your baby is going to become a teenager then you will always be a Super Hero which is not necessarily bad if that is what is important to you and you make that your end game.