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How to Create Sustainable Cash Flow and Turn Your Business into a Valuable Asset w/ Ryan Tansom

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

How do you valuate a small business?

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Case Study: A Founder Steps Back from Her Start-Up

Harvard Business

Elena had managed this growth without taking on any outside investors; she’d relied on bank loans and continued to invest her own money in the business. On her desk was a pile of résumés from CEO candidates who’d responded to a listing she’d posted on a small business sale website.

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Top Trends in US Business Startups

Business Consulting Agency

Service-Oriented Businesses : Facts : Service-based startups thrive across multiple sectors, encompassing consulting, marketing, hospitality, and more. The US Small Business Administration (SBA) reports that service-based businesses constitute nearly 80% of all US businesses.

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3 Tactics for Accelerating Company Performance Despite an Economic Downturn

Organizational Talent Consulting

Change management should be presented in a way that leads to different ways of thinking and acting. In the following video, Dr. Chermack provides an overview of the process using a small business case study. Journal of Property Management, 73(5), 13. Leadership & Organization Development Journal.

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The Deep Flaw in MBB Strategic Planning

CaseInterview.com

Under many circumstances, this degree of focus serves as a sound management principle. In my consulting practice today, I exclusively serve small businesses — some as small as $500,000 a year in sales up to $15 million typically (sometimes up to $300 million). But like anything overdone, it creates vulnerabilities.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

Even if you don’t need to know a lot about finance to do your day-to-day job, the more conversant you are on the subject, the better off you’ll be, according to Richard Ruback, a professor at Harvard Business School and the coauthor of the HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business. ’ scenarios,” says Ruback.

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30 Best Consultant Websites & Why They Have Them (2022)

Tsavo Neal

Baker – Management Consultant I have a consulting website because—at the prices I charge—I think it’s imperative that prospective clients can get inside my head and see how I think before they engage me. Look out for a few case studies, and more under the hood posts on my consulting work in the future. from time to time.