Leadership

With the help of his trusted advisors, the business owner must understand that, only with proper planning today can the family maximize and protect the value of the years of hard work he/she has put into the company. Attention must be paid to planning for retirement, transitioning to a lesser role in the company, and the impact of his/her own mortality.|

How high do the stakes have to get for us to shift into a higher mode of clarity and preparedness? As business leaders, we are the ones who get to make that decision.|

The concept of always getting better ought to be on the leadership team agenda pretty regularly — I suggest monthly. Why? Because unless the leaders of the business keep emphasizing it — and doing it — it is so easy to get lulled into a malaise of false comfort.|

It is important to have directors focused on what your CEO is doing or not doing on the web relative to reputation and brand management. |