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Business Concern — 100 episodes
Who Reviews the CEO?
"Leave Well Enough Alone"
Slow Is Smooth, Smooth Is Fast
The Legacy Trap
Threats to Business Value are Foreseeable and Preventable
Accomplish Continuous Improvement of Performance
The Time Thief
Delegate – Unlock the Maximum Value of Your Business
The Risks of Not Implementing an Owner Agreement
Lightning
Business Failure
Discovering the Owner Agreement for Your Business
Where to Find Help
Creation of Wealth for Business Owners
When Planning Becomes Dynamic
The Concept of Time – How Its Progression Affects Important Tasks
Pay Attention to What is Important
Important Accomplishments
Establish a Profitable Business – Do Not Stop There!
Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda
"No One Wants to Buy a Job"
Thinking About Who Will Buy My Business
If It Feels Good, Don't Do It
Create a Strategy About What is Important and a Schedule to Accomplish Important Tasks
The Wealth Building Event
Give God a Chuckle
Strategic Planning – an Oxymoron?
Why You Should be Able to Articulate Your Values
The Smell of Fear
Dynamic Planning – Like a Guided Missile
Wait for the Fork
Do Your Co-owner's Plans for the Business Include You?
Increase Personal Wealth by Prior Diligence
Flat or Pyramid Governance Structure for Effective Business Decisions?
Building a Business on a Volcano
The Owner Agreement - Sustaining Business Profitability
Time – Change Continuum
Do You Care about Making Your Business More Valuable?
Employee Arrogance
Peering Through Business Fog
"I Can Do Anything Better Than You . . ."
When the Team Picks You Up
How I Learned to Love Confrontation
The Exhausting Burden of Always Being Right
"I Will Talk to You About That for Five Minutes Tomorrow"
The Misunderstood Role of Leadership in Decision-making
Trust Your Gut
Hearing the Unsaid
Conflate Power and Wisdom?
When the Goal is Wrong
Is Fear an Appropriate Response to the Future?
Team Cohesion Through Goal Setting
Not Making the Goal
You May Have Authority – Do You Have Control?
Consistently Good Business Decisions
Documenting the Plan – Essential, But a Form of Procrastination
Getting Real – Dreams, Values, and Goals
Keep the Tigers
Executing the Pivot
Cybersecurity Insurance
Planning for Cybersecurity Issues
Be Careful Whom You Like
Optimism - Its Role in Business Planning
Concentric Circles
To Be Effective, the Planning Process Must Be Constant
Questions Owners Should Ask One Another
Making a Decision - How Long is Too Long?
Dynamic Planning Allows Timing of Quality Decisions
Out of Control
Out of Control
Girl Scout Cookies
Perceiving Reality – How Hard Can It Be?
"They Don't Speak to One Another"
Lost
Rather Be Lucky than Good – Really?
Rather Be Lucky than Good – Really?
When Planning Becomes Dynamic
Taking Action
From Writing Values to Agreeing Upon Goals
Why Knowing and Articulating Values is Essential to Good Decision-Making
The Brilliant Play of Nick Markakis
Two Cars
Evaluating the Long Term Planning for Your Business
Creating and Building a Decision-Making Policy for Consistently Excellent Decisions
Expect the Plan Will Not Go As Planned
Your Business - What You Can Do Now About the Future
How Does the Private Business Manage Its Message?
Exit Planning for the Private Business Owner
Decision Making - The Basic Elements
Understanding Private Company Valuation as a Concept for Building Wealth
Opportunities Come from Crisis Change
Opportunities Come from Crisis Change
Crisis Decision Making
Some Common Misconceptions of Business Owners
Interview with Bill Tucker - Estate Planning for Business Owners
Who Would Buy My Business? The Benefit of Prior Diligence
Interview with Kurt Mueller CFP
A Safe Place
More Than One Owner - Risk Losing Control?
Prior Diligence