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Benchmarking – use it as your compass!
Many business owners biggest problem is they fail to focus on the 2 -3 key value drivers that can really make the differenec – they...
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Getting your business sale ready – Structure and due diligence
Most business owners when they prepare their businesses for sale are really not sure what that exactly means – they probably know they need to...
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Business Wealth and Family Wealth – Business succession planning and estate planning are the link
Recent work with clients has again highlighted the need to coordinate business succession planning and estate planning to achieve client outcomes. Much of our work...
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Plan your business affairs for taxation or plan for business sale – they are not the same !
Often as business owners we are advised to plan our business affairs to minimise the taxation impact and accountants often implement various strategies to reduce...
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Business succession planning- Use an employee share plan to provide certainty
“You don’t really have to convince anyone about the benefits of employee share plan; it’s self evident. Engaged employees want to have a stake in...
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Succession is also about someone’s entry as a business leader or owner
By refusing to retire to allow a renewal of the government, Mr Howard had failed as leader: “Leadership’s also about your departure, you know,” Peter...
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The Pope and Employee Share Plans
In his new encyclical, Caritats in Veritate, Pope Benedict states that “alongside profit-oriented private enterprise and the various types of public enterprise, there must be...
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Using employee share plans to retain key sales people and fund your exit from real estate business
Like most business owners real estate practices are particularly vulnerable to key staff leaving the business and taking with them key relationships, clients and information.
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Every company has to be owned by someone – why not the people working in the business ?
A new UK paper ( http://www.employeeownership.co.uk/publications.asp ) on employee ownership poses this question by Willie Watt of Martin Currie and outlines some amazing improvements in...
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Follow us on Twitter and Facebook
Our team at Succession Plus enjoyed a short workshop with the social media guys at Switched on Media ( @switchedonmdeia ) and worked on several...