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How to Sell a Lousy Business
For the most part, the value of your business is based on financial performance.However, there’s an equally, if not more important factor, that causes others to want to buy your company.In fact, I’ve...
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How to Sell a Lousy Business, Part II
My article last week, "How To Sell A Lousy Business" prompted more replies than any of the 250+ articles I have written in the past four years. While I would like to think that the reason for this was...
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Want a $105 Billion Offer for Your business?
Have you heard about Broadcom’s takeover bid for long-time competitor Qualcomm?Well, it’s happening now and it has dominated business news this week.Because, at an offer price of $105 billion, if...
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Why These 50 Companies are Positioned for Breakout Growth
Fortune Magazine and Boston Consulting Group just teamed up to create their inaugural "Fortune 50" list.The list ranks companies best positioned for breakout growth in the years to come. I love the...
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Will “Rapid Demonetization” Kill Your Business?
Have you heard of renowned futurist Peter Diamandis?Or what he describes as “rapid demonetization?”If not, you need to, as we now have many examples of businesses getting killed by it,...
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The Most Interesting Part of CVS & Aetna
CVS' proposed acquisition this week of health insurance giant Aetna is a big deal.It will combine a pharmacy retailer with more than 9,000 stores, with a health insurance giant with more than 22...
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Breakout Growth Strategies for Today’s Boom Market
Try on these “Boom Market” stats for size:The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed today at 24,642.86, up 24% since January 1st and 34% since Election Day 2016. The U.S. economy added 228,000 jobs in...
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2 Reasons Why This is the Best Holiday Season Ever
This holiday season is the best ever for your business for two simple reasons.The first is that we currently have awesome economic conditions: a roaring stock market, low unemployment, and solid...
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Do This to Maximize the Value of Your Business in 2018
In this recorded webinar, Five Steps to Maximize Your Valuation - I reveal the 5 steps you can take in 2018 to dramatically increase the sale price of your business, and dramatically decrease the time...
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How to Add “Championship Caliber” to Your Business
Did you catch the end of the Alabama-Georgia College Football Championship game on Monday? It was incredible (unless, of course, you’re a Georgia fan). The game provided an awesome wisdom for business...
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The One Thing Your Business Needs
To succeed, a business doesn’t need technical nor finance nor sales nor marketing nor customer support skills and competencies. It doesn’t even need a physical location. But it does need one thing. To...
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11 AMAZING Businesses Your Business Can Learn From
Does your company defy the odds? Remake the status quo? Transform your patch of the business world? Well, the 11 finalists in Inc. Magazine’s “Company of the Year” competition certainly do.What can...
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The Biggest & Boldest Undertaking of 2018
The big news this week was the announcement that Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan were teaming up to form a completely new healthcare company.As in Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Jamie Dimon....
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Is Your Business Due or is it Hot?
I recently read a great story about basketball legend Nate “Tiny” Archibald.Nate was such a great player he was inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame. But earlier in his career, he missed the first 20...
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Is Your Business Running Out of Time?
On Monday, New York Times CEO Mark Thompson admitted something. He admitted their print version faces inevitable "expiration." Yes, he said “expiration.” As in running out of time. Now, as a long ago...
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How to be an Olympian in Your Business
Isn’t it awesome to see the amazing grace, endurance, skill, and competitiveness of our Olympic athletes? And wouldn’t it be great to perform as executives and entrepreneurs at that kind of...
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The CEO Trap (Avoid This)
Unfortunately, most things don't work in business. New marketing campaigns don't generate leads, new salespeople don't sell, new software doesn't save the promised time and money, and so on and so on....
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What Tesla and Playdoh Do that Your Business Should Too
Growing wider every day is the divide between companies that “get it” when it comes to modern marketing and business promotion... ...and those that don’t. Luckily, there is a super simple way to...
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Attaining Competitive Advantage in Any Business
An underrated joy of being in business is the daily opportunity it offers to strive for and experience breakthroughs in "that best version of ourselves."To some this may sound like pop psychology...
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Choose Wisely. Win Big.
Great executives and great entrepreneurs make great choices. About everything.The names of their businesses - think Google, Facebook, Nike et al. The right products and services to build and sell -...
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