What happens when you decide it’s time to retire and step away from your business? We find most people, including business owners, don’t have a good answer for this question. Too many will throw out platitudes along the lines that they’ll spend more time with family and friends, traveling, vacationing, playing golf or tennis. The list goes on, but in reality they’ve never really given this question much thought.
How Do I Tell My Story?
At the end of the day, we all have a mess in our businesses and our lives. The question becomes who do we share what parts of that mess with when it comes to our business. As the owner of a small business it’s likely you will go months or years without having to Present yourself or share your story.
How Do I Rebuild or Reset My Organization?
During the show today we focused on a couple of examples of organizations that have gone through successful rebuilds. One you might be familiar with, the Cleveland Browns. The others are likely more like your business in that they are smaller and lesser known. We used our 7 Keys to Success framework to help explain how these changes were accomplished through the Organizational Plan for the business as well as balancing short-term results with long-term success.
How To Tap Into Your Local Library For Market Research – with Andrew Mangels
So what kind of memories do you have of the library? If you’re like most people, it goes back to your early childhood days and story time. Perhaps you rediscovered the library when you had your own kids. Many of us spent time in the library during high school or college. But chances are that once you got into the business world you stopped visiting your local library altogether.
How Do I Overcome Imposter Syndrome?
Do you ever feel like a fraud? Or do you worry that “they’re” going to figure out that I don’t belong or that I didn’t earn this? There are hundreds of these types of questions you might be wrestling with. For some business owners we find these thoughts will often dominate their day-to-day interactions. Other business owners have done a good enough job over the years of either ignoring most of these voices or they have found ways to quiet the voices so they aren’t distracting or even paralyzing.
How Do I Talk With My Banker?
One thing that strikes fear in the heart of many business owners is having a meeting with their banker. It’s not that these banker types tend to be intimidating or mean, it usually has more to do with how comfortable the business owner is with their financials. As the owner, the last thing you want to do is to say the wrong thing to your banker. Can’t the banker do all sorts of terrible things to you and your business? Like pull your line of credit? Or not approve the loan for that new piece of equipment?
How Do I Know If I Should Work With My Spouse/Significant Other?
Does the idea of working with your spouse excite or scare you? This thought of, “maybe my spouse/significant other can help with this,” is one that goes through most business owners minds at some point. It’s a perfectly natural question, especially in today’s world where it is getting tougher and tougher to find good people.
How Do I Find Where Cash Is Hiding In My Business?
Cash is one of those things that whether you have it or not it’s usually top of mind. If you don’t have cash you’re thinking about how you’re going to get it. If you have cash you might be worrying if it’s enough or if you will run out. Either way, chances are you’re going to be aware of it and thinking about it.
How Do I Find A Company To Purchase?
A lot of folks talk about what it would be like to own their own business. Several have their own ideas for the type of company they would start. Others aren’t so sure the type of company, they just know they want to own one (or several!). So they’ll begin to search for a company to buy.
How Do I Touch The Third Rail and Survive a Transition?
For those unfamiliar with the term “third rail” we’ve including a link below talking about it’s definition in politics. The metaphor comes from the high-voltage third rail in some electric railway systems. Touching that third rail often results in electrocution so most folks don’t live to tell about it.