David Finkel

David Finkel is the author of 12 business books, including his newest release The Freedom Formula. He is the co-author of Scale: Seven Proven Principles to Grow Your Business and Get Your Life Back (written with Priceline.com co-founder Jeff Hoffman), and a respected business thinker. Finkel's weekly business owner e-letter is read by 100,000 business owners around the world each week. Finkel is the CEO of Maui Mastermind, a business coaching company. Over the past 20 years, Finkel and the other Maui coaches have personally scaled and sold more than $2 billion worth of businesses. David Finkel is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine.

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The 5 Most Expensive Hiring Mistakes a Business Owner or CEO Can Make

CEO AgendaDavid Finkel

One of your most important leadership functions is in selecting, hiring, and integrating top level talent to help you grow your company. The true cost of a bad hire can be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Here are the 5 most expensive hiring mistakes and how you can...

CEO Agenda Education and Career

6 Tips to Collect Your Receivables Faster (Making It Easier to Manage Your Cash Flow)

CEO Agenda Education and CareerDavid Finkel

One of the most important lessons with respect to managing cash flow is this: The faster you collect from your customers, the easier it will be to manage your cash flow. Most businesses carelessly fall into cash crunches because they let their receivables slip longer and longer before being paid....

CEO Agenda Education and Career

8 Tips to Run an Effective Meeting

CEO Agenda Education and CareerDavid Finkel

Think of how much time and money your company spends on meetings. Yet so few executives know what it takes to make meetings crisp and productive. Here are 7 tips to make your meetings more effective: 1. Plan your meeting in advance – in writing A. What is the purpose...

CEO Advisory

5 Solid Suggestions to Reinforce Your Company Culture

CEO AdvisoryDavid Finkel

One of the key challenges that face any business owner is how to build a business that is independent of themselves. In other words, how can they build a business that isn’t reliant on them being there every day to solve challenges or put out fires. Obviously sound systems and...

CEO Advisory

10 Tips for Executives to Leverage Their Personal Assistants to Get More Done in Less Time

CEO AdvisoryDavid Finkel

I am stretched so thin with all the projects on my plate and sometimes it feels like getting help from an assistant isn’t a help, but rather it’s like adding another to-do to my plate. This is a common response from executives of small and medium sized companies who I...

CEO Advisory

10 Tactics to Increase Sales

CEO AdvisoryDavid Finkel

Here are 10 sales tactics I’ve used with many companies I’ve run or coached over the years. 1. Convert Visitors into Customers: Look at all the people who “visit” your business (either online or physical) but whom you never actually get their contact information. If it’s online, beef up your...

Education and Career

5 Ways to Raise the Accountability Bar Inside Your Company

Education and CareerDavid Finkel

It’s one thing to create a grand plan to grow your company, it is a whole other thing to get your team consistently executing. The most essential “in the trenches” key to execution is to raise the accountability bar inside your company so that each team member feels like what...

Education and Career

8 Tips When Selling Your Business That You Need to Know

Education and CareerDavid Finkel

In the course of giving keynotes to large entrepreneurial conferences I often get asked, “David, what’s it really like to sell your company? What do you wish you would have known before you sold that no one told you?” I still remember the sale of my first company roughly 10...

Education and Career

The 29 Key Questions to Ask Before You Form Any Partnerships

Education and CareerDavid Finkel

Whether it’s a formal business partnership, a joint venture, or a significant strategic relationship, partnerships can be an incredible source of business leverage. Like all forms of leverage, a partnership’s power can magnify good or bad. Over the years I’ve moved into and out of literally dozens of joint ventures...

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David Finkel

The 5 Most Expensive Hiring Mistakes a Business Owner or CEO Can Make

6 Tips to Collect Your Receivables Faster (Making It Easier to Manage Your Cash Flow)

8 Tips to Run an Effective Meeting

5 Solid Suggestions to Reinforce Your Company Culture

10 Tips for Executives to Leverage Their Personal Assistants to Get More Done in Less Time

10 Tactics to Increase Sales

5 Ways to Raise the Accountability Bar Inside Your Company

8 Tips When Selling Your Business That You Need to Know

The 29 Key Questions to Ask Before You Form Any Partnerships

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