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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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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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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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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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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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The Cost of No Cost

About a quarter of my work is with companies funded by angel investors. During the first couple of months of any engagement, I work to identify the underlying causes of the condition that the compa...
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  • DrSmith published this 09/06/2009
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The Other Side of the Coin

During a recent coaching engagement, I came to realize that a CEO I was working with had a tendency to accentuate the negative. She was heavily committed to building her first successful business –...
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  • DrSmith published this 08/31/2009
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Sea Change Brings Change

One of the inevitable results of growth is change. This maxim is as true for organizations as it is for individuals. When ‘what has been’ morphs into ‘what is new’, opportunities proliferate but di...
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  • DrSmith published this 08/30/2009
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Lack of Accountability – The Core of Failure

Recently, I was recently invited by three different investors to ‘take a look’ at companies that they had invested in. The pattern that I found was so strikingly similar that I set to thinking abou...
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  • DrSmith published this 08/24/2009
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Knowing Versus Doing – Post-Success Malaise

I recently was asked to intervene in a situation that brought into focus one of the most common reasons why companies fail – the difference between knowing what has to be done and doing what has to...
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  • DrSmith published this 07/27/2009
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Counting the Cost

Over the years, I have developed a habit that has served me well. I calculate the cost of the meeting by adding up the value of each participant’s time, the cost of the facility and any materials u...
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  • DrSmith published this 07/23/2009
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