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Last week, I wrote about planning for next year. This week, let’s look at how to review your results for this past year. This information will be critical for planning for next year, and for identifying: how to grow your company how to improve profits how to increase cash flow (to fund your growth) how … Continue reading How to Review This Year’s Results

Can you see your 2020 plans and results with the clarity of 20/20 vision? Seeing into the future is not possible. That’s why you need a written plan to grow your business, increase revenues and profits, enhance business valuation, and build your business wealth. You might not be able to see your future clearly, but … Continue reading What Is Your 2020 Plan?

This past summer, I started to expand my business to Toronto. Why Toronto? Our younger daughter is attending Ryerson there. I also have a history with Toronto, having lived there for two years when I articled for my Chartered Accountant (now Chartered Public Accountant, or CPA) designation with Ernst & Young (now EY, because, you … Continue reading Airbnb® Lessons for Business

As my wife and I get ready to become empty-nesters in 2020, our plans got accelerated. Here’s what happened. We were out one warm and sunny Sunday September afternoon and stopped for ice cream at Milky Way. Driving home after an ice cream extravaganza, we came across an open house, which my wife cannot pass … Continue reading Empty Nest Lessons for Business

Let’s continue our back to school lesson this week. Which of these are you already doing and which can you implement to drive your growth? INTERNATIONAL – Are you leveraging technology, communication, global payment systems, and the ease of marketing and building trust globally to expand your business? JOB vs. CAREER – Many growing business … Continue reading Back To School – Part 2

It’s back to school time! Are you growing and learning in your business like you did back in your school days? Back to school family picture at Niagara Falls a couple of years ago. Today’s lesson is: “The ABCs of Growing your Business.” Here are more than 26 ideas to implement and help you increase … Continue reading Back To School

Are you in the top performance quartile or bottom quartile of businesses similar to you? Wouldn’t you like to know? Your banker knows. My most successful clients have benefited from long-term relationships with bankers who were their strategic partners and supported the business growth. From my upcoming book, The Four Roads to Business Wealth, here … Continue reading Seven Ways Your Banker Can Help You To Grow Your Business

For more than 25 years, I’ve dealt with bankers that have supported my clients’ growth and successes. Therefore, I feel highly qualified to know a great banker when I see one. And I’ve had the pleasure of working with many great bankers, and continue to meet dynamic new bankers who will definitely help my clients—and … Continue reading How To Know When You’ve Got A Great Banker

This past week, we acknowledged the 50 year anniversary of Apollo 11’s successful landing on the moon. When John F. Kennedy stated the promise in 1961 to put a man on the moon and safely return him to earth by the end of that decade, the USA did not yet possess the capabilities to do … Continue reading Leadership and Going to the Moon

It’s a fact of life and of business: Good results come from good actions, good actions come from good decisions, and good decisions come from good information. Therefore, the most important resource in any business is information. Information gives your power to make better decisions, take better actions, and achieve better results aligned with your … Continue reading Resources and Systems to Support Success