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M&A Thinking About Selling

The closing table is no place to finally come to terms with the fact that you are about to sell your interest in a business that you may have spend years building up. It is no place to come to term...
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  • DrSmith published this 3 days ago
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Life Coaching - The Propose of a Compass

Life coaching can bring some of life’s grandest adventures. The issues at stake are often monumental and, not infrequently, the results can be life changing. In current times such coaching is frequ...
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  • DrSmith published this 11/19/2009
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Helping Companies Adapt to Changing Times – Part One

In the aftermath of two important developments – the election of a new and transformative administration in Washington and the financial and economic downturn, I have found myself working with comp...
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  • DrSmith published this 11/17/2009
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Mergers & Acquisitions Thinking About Selling – Part I Confronting the Reasons

One of the most difficult decisions that a founder faces is when and to whom to sell his interest in a business – a business that he might have spent a considerable part of his adult life building....
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  • DrSmith published this 11/09/2009
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Apprehension - Fear or Understanding

Language can be a complicated thing – particularly when it comes to those curious words that have multiple meanings. It’s not so much the existence of the meanings that intrigues me but the choices...
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  • DrSmith published this 11/05/2009
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Leadership Styles and Profiles

APA Format, 10 Sources, 7 Pages This essay examines the leadership and provides leadership profiles and assessments for several well-known corporate leaders. Some of the leaders discussed are...
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  • China-Doll-Publishing published this 10/15/2009
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Why Do I Need a Coach

One response is particularly interesting – “I don’t seem to have time anymore.” The first implication of this ‘defense’ is that life has become so crammed with other stuff that learning has been sq...
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  • DrSmith published this 10/05/2009
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Advisory Boards – Turbocharged Business Development

I build and manage Advisory Boards as business development engines for emerging and well-established companies. They are the single most powerful component of business development that I have ever ...
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  • DrSmith published this 10/03/2009
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Finding Meaning Without Manufacturing Meaning

The search for meaning is one of life’s continuing journeys. The suspicion that meaning is lacking can bring on a deep dread that can haunt us all. The dreary landscape of the suspicion of no meani...
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  • DrSmith published this 10/03/2009
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The Elevator Speech

According to current doctrine, everybody is supposed to have an elevator speech – that monologue that you can reel off during a two or three floor ride – hopefully going up rather than down. I’ve n...
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  • DrSmith published this 09/29/2009
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Virtual Chairman

When asked what I do I sometimes reply that I am a Virtual Chairman. That answer almost always generates a somewhat confused look. As it is one of the more important contributions that I make to st...
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  • DrSmith published this 09/29/2009
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Making the Possible Probable

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  • DrSmith published this 09/27/2009
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Initial Press Release - Print Copy

About the Book: I’ve never met a CEO who was really happy with the way business development was working. They all end up saying the same thing. “Traditional solutions fail to produce expected resu...
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  • DrSmith published this 09/26/2009
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The Price of Intemperance

That’s the way one of my early mentors used to put it. Jim was constantly pointing out those things I did without thinking – and the effect of my having done them on future prospects. Now don’t get...
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  • DrSmith published this 09/26/2009
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Adults in Wonderland

There is no freedom like being able to say what you truly mean – not what others want you appear to mean – nor what you might say in the throes of an adolescent tantrum – but to clearly say in a me...
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  • DrSmith published this 09/24/2009
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Finding a Mirror – Realizing

I won’t sugarcoat it – mentoring can bring some very aggravating experiences. Sometimes it takes forever to achieve just a small illumination. Then there are the times – backsliding – when months o...
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  • DrSmith published this 09/22/2009
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State of Affairs and Investors

I recently met with a young entrepreneur – let’s call him X – well, to be technically accurate, a wannabe entrepreneur – he had never successfully built a business before. The meeting was a chance ...
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  • DrSmith published this 09/17/2009
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Just Couldn’t Bring Himself …

Most of my work is done with middle-market companies – by that I mean well established operations with a proven senior team that has worked through most of the big inter-personnel issues and found ...
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  • DrSmith published this 09/14/2009
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Absolute Beginners Guide to Project Management by Greg Horine

I will definitely use this book as: 1) a basis for educating new project managers in my firm, 2) a refresher for experienced project managers who need some reminders on the `softer’ skills that def...
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  • vette05 published this 09/10/2009
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Moving the Ball

I recently facilitated an all-hands session for a company. We were focusing on the results of an extended process of reorganization and re-resourcing. Both of the efforts had been very successful a...
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  • DrSmith published this 09/10/2009
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