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Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Martinka Consulting

Record number of small business sales in 2018! 70% of medium sized companies will change hands (2008). Between 35 & 45% of these owners are 65 or older (2018). Notice the same predictions from 2008-2015? Synergistic product line firm. Contract manufacturer (of your product). This as per bizbuysell.com.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: IMF "Baseline Scenario.

MishTalk

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. The optimistic scenario assumes 2% growth, but that scenario does not start until 2018, and only if labor reforms in Spain and Europe take place. Projections 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018. Gross domestic product -3.7 -0.3 July 2008 (104).

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What GE’s Board Could Have Done Differently

Harvard Business

in early 2018, according to Moody’s. The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee. If the GE board had had a finance committee, the board might have done a better job of overseeing the design and funding of its retirement plans.

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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives.

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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

A global survey of over 5000 CEOs revealed that greater than 60 percent of organizations anticipate introducing new products or services to fuel their growth. Company cultures centered on efficiency thinking have flooded the marketplace with low-cost, widely available products and resulted in tremendous waste and social issues (Brown, 2009).

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Top Consulting Firms

CaseInterview.com

In 2018, Fortune named it #4 among the “100 Best Companies to Work For.”. It was ranked #3 best place to work on Glassdoor in 2018 and 2017. It has long championed inclusion as a partial solution to business challenges like turnover, productivity, profitability, and customer satisfaction. Work-Life Balance. Career Growth.