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Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Martinka Consulting

Record number of small business sales in 2018! More businesses sold after being advertised on bizbuysell.com than any other year, and 2017 was 25% higher than 2016. Our first question is: what is “small?” Pretty small. 70% of medium sized companies will change hands (2008). This as per bizbuysell.com.

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High-Powered Idiocy from Academic Wonderland; Three Reasons Banks Not Lending; Blinder is Blind

MishTalk

Not long ago—say, until Lehman Brothers failed in September 2008—banks held virtually no excess reserves because idle cash earned them nothing. The year is not ending on a high note in the small-business sector of the economy. Only 2% of small businesses complain about financing.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

This is not our first recession, this is not our worst recession, but helping businesses to succeed and flourish will provide the much needed jobs to enable us to do what we are best at; pulling ourselves up by the boot strings.” When I started out in the program, I quickly realized I was never cut out for finance or accounting.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

Nearly every function from marketing to human resources and finance was replicated at each level: Enterprise functions and infrastructure. Country P&Ls would be replaced with simpler, sales-oriented measures. Capabilities can be specific to a given business segment (e.g. Regional Clusters (P&L, plus infrastructure).

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