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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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How SMEs can welcome the decade of Organizational Culture

Asamby Consulting

Due to the ongoing efforts of governments to delay inflation and a recession since 2008, we are experiencing an overlap of one phase ending and a new phase beginning (see graphic 1). In addition, the positive effect of culture on […] sales were mediated by customer satisfaction.” It’s basically a competitive advantage itself.

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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. But today they hold a whopping $2.5

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The Mindset That Wins Consulting Work With Fortune 500 Companies with Mindy Millward: Podcast #24

Consulting Success

We have a few clients, one in particular that the selling cycle was four years, and that’s a lifetime in a small business and to a consultancy to think that, “I’m talking to this potential client for a period of four years off and on and still haven’t sold them one day of work.” How do you do that?

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

Country P&Ls would be replaced with simpler, sales-oriented measures. Capabilities can be specific to a given business segment (e.g. integrated software platform development in McKesson’s healthcare technology businesses), but the enterprise needs to consider capabilities as well. P&G is a leader in capability building.

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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.” “I have a small internet company, but I became interested in entrepreneurship at least 10 years ago.