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After likely spending a lifetime building your business, deciding to exit can be a hard choice. It’s made even harder if you don’t have a comprehensive exit strategy in place. Senior wealth manager Susan Jones provides a guide to exit planning — from estate planning to liquidation strategies — to...

When you are first starting a business, how and when you use your finances can be crucial to the lifeblood of your business. According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 20% of small businesses fail in their first year. That is why it is immensely important to...

Leadership matters - even in outer space. You have seen amazing images from NASA’s new James Webb Telescope, now orbiting the sun. The US Congress almost canceled the project several times as it drifted under poor leadership, and the budget grew from $1 billion to $10 billion. The Wall Street...

Elliott Allan Hilsinger, who also goes by the name Allan Hilsinger, always looks for ways to help people. One of the greatest accomplishments in his life so far is founding his own identity theft protection firm. This company was founded in 2011 and was founded specifically to help provide identity...

Delivering an exceptional digital experience at scale is still challenging for many enterprises. This continued weakness costs organizations and employees millions in lost productivity to IT downtime and can often drive employee turnover. As companies continue to adjust to distributed workforces and changing economic and geopolitical conditions, inadequate IT provisions...

When I started my consulting business in February 2019, I created a business plan outlining ideal projects and potential clients I thought I’d work with; but what happened was completely unanticipated and, thankfully, so much bigger and better than the plans I’d laid out.  One of my biggest fears was...

Digitally literate workers can hit the ground running with new digital tools, putting their skills to use in more creative ways and using these tools to streamline operations. But how can an organization improve its workers' digital literacy? It needs to develop a digital transformation strategy that helps employees stay ahead...

It’s a fact that likable people are the ones who get furthest in life. Even if you’re not the smartest or most experienced, if you are the most likable, you’ll often be the most persuasive at the moment. In contrast, unlikeable people are a turn-off. They destroy the joy and...

One of the biggest questions that many organisations are facing currently is how to reorganise the way their people work to ensure that they get the best productivity and performance in a flexible hybrid environment.  This is creating the biggest headache for many executives as they struggle to find an...

The meeting is over, so now it’s time to get back to work, right? Wrong. Any good meeting, even an informal check-in, deserves to be memorialized. But adding one more step to your packed schedule is the last thing you need right now.  This may be the internal dialogue playing...