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Super Charge Your Strategic Plan with Scenario Planning
The future is a mystery. Strategic planning may not fully prepare you for the curve balls of the future, but it can help us prepare to keep moving forward on the path to success. The best way to form a contingency plan is to have more than one solution to possible problems. “No plan [...]
Didn’t Want to Screw It Up
Successfully integrated family into business leadership while balancing family dynamics is full of complexities. As Joe Chastang shares, many private and family business owners screw it up. Thanksgiving and Christmas come around every year, and the business provides for 100+ employees. Mis-matched expectations, communication differences, and management styles can create [...]
Avoid Emotional Landmines
As Joe Chastang shares, getting your company started, running it, and being successful is a good feeling. Seeing your kids step in and do better is a better feeling. In 2015, when Joe embarked on the succession planning journey led by Jeff Faulkner and Jeff Bannon, he reviewed the action [...]
Best Thing We Ever Did
As Joe shares, it isn't fair to the business's employees for an owner to be lazy and not invest in the future success and sustainability of the company. Therefore, business succession planning isn't just about protecting profits and transfer of ownership; it is also about positioning the business for continued [...]
Take the Business to the Next Level
Succession planning builds value. Joe shares that one of many benefits of the succession planning process was learning how to run the company better. As a car and heavy truck dealer, Joe Chastang and his leadership team are good at selling vehicles, labor, and parts. An outside perspective focused on [...]
Moving From Average to Extra-Ordinary
The definition of discipline is “an exercise that develops or improves a skill or habit.” It is the missing ingredient in building the personal and organizational “muscle(s)” that leads to exceptional performance. Most of us who recognize the value in building those muscles are sometimes reluctant to make the effort, either because we don’t want [...]
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