The culture of your organization can be one of your most valuable assets. As management guru Peter Drucker has said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” But by the same standards, a weak, non-existent or toxic company culture—the pandemic-born term...
How They’re Different—and Why You Need Both In my travels on the succession planning keynote speaker circuit, my clients are there because they want to ensure their businesses are prepared for any eventuality. So, even though the topic of my talk is succession...
Why It’s Never too Early to Start Succession Planning When leading succession planning training retreats, I often ask my attendees to think about the managers they have worked for over the years—and whether or not these people were good leaders. It often strikes me...
We’ve all heard the adage “in life, the only constant is change,” and I don’t think any of us really disagree. So why is it so hard to remember that this wisdom applies to our professional lives, too? As a leadership keynote speaker, there’s one phrase I hear more...
The combination of family and business is always a challenging one – and never more so than during the changing of the guard. As I’ve seen first-hand, both during my travels as a succession planning speaker and in my experience taking over my family’s business, firm...
Handing Over the Reigns is a must read for anyone who is contemplating passing their business on to the next generation. This book is based on Richard’s experience in a 4th generation 100 year old family business and from the work he has done with many other privately held companies in the UK and USA.