The sale of your business will probably be the second most important business event you need to get right, the first being starting your business. You can never start too early to plan to sell a business. Some people start the planning even before they have started the actual business! Accordingly, they want to create […]
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Selling Your Business? – Some advice from someone who’s been there … by David Noble
I sold my insurance broking business in 2009 when my partner decided it was time to exit. Having no previous experience and very little knowledge in this area I was grateful to the Academy for Chief Executives (ACE) for the support and advice I received throughout the process. From my own experience these are my […]
Exiting your business – what you should know (including how to maximise profit!) … by Simon Lester
Planning a successful exit … or put another way “Taking the fastest route to the biggest profit with the least resistance!” Most business owners have plans to exit their business at some point and there are many elements that combine to ensure a successful exit. Grooming the business for sales is obviously paramount, but in […]
Top ten tips for Selling Your Business – by Howard Leigh
Howard Leigh is the Senior Partner of Cavendish Corporate Finance LLP, the UK leading specialist advisor to entrepreneurs wishing to sell their business. Here, Howard provides his top ten tips on ‘selling your business’. The earlier you plan to sell the business the better better – it’s a good idea to ask a friendly accountant […]
Give Great Answers to Tough Shopfloor Questions by Michael Dodd
The toughest professional questions to members of the Academy for Chief Executives come primarily from just three areas. They’re asked by customers, prospects and your own employees. How do we know this? The information comes from the pre-session surveys that I’ve been conducting with members before sessions on “Give Great Answers To Tough Questions”. So […]
Building a High Performance Organisation to Withstand Turbulent Times – by Richard Barrett
Gone are the days of stability when you could develop a strategy and confidently plan the growth of your business over a five-year period. We are now living through a different period of history–a period that is marked by unanticipated events with regional and global impacts on business. Events such as the economic crash of […]
Experiential Executive Development from the World’s Most Exciting Companies
How do Google innovate so successfully? … To find out, attend the TopDog Tour – June 12th 2011 ?What If!, the world’s largest independent innovation consultancy, are offering an exclusive 50% discount off their TopDog Programme. This is based on six members of the Academy signing up. What is TopDog? TopDog is a leadership and […]
The Academy for Chief Executives: first choice for Leaders intent on improving their effectiveness
As we discussed in our blogs towards the end of December 2010, the start of 2011 heralds a new era in the development of the Academy for Chief Executives. Andrew Morris, who has been a leading figure in the media and events industry for over twenty years became our new Chief Executive on 1st January. […]
Beginnings and endings by Jeremy Marchant
New Year’s Resolutions. Just going through the motions or using the idea as a motivator? I think that people whose New Year’s resolutions fail wanted to carry them out, but they didn’t prepare themselves for the process well enough. After all, if you could do something differently – and successfully – so that your business, […]
Recipe For a Good CEO by Joe Adams
If only it were that easy! But whilst the recipe for the perfect CEO might not exist, there are definitely some basic ingredients which are required to make the creation a success … Before we identify the fundamental traits that blend together to create a successful CEO, first let’s remind ourselves of what the role […]