Last week we introduced a concept that, to some of you, may be a new option. If you’re not ready to sell your business and ride into the sunset, imagine remaining in the industry you love. What if you could even remain in the business you've lovingly built into the... read more →
Sep
17
Sep
16
There are few surefire ways to guarantee your company will survive a bad economy, but solving the people puzzle is one of the best ways to greatly enhance your chances. What is the people puzzle? It's discerning what the people in your business are "shaped" like so you can find... read more →
Sep
15
The place where God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet. --Frederick Buechner Last week I shared how so many businesses suffer from what I called “me-too-itiis.” It is the natural tendency businesses have to want to be just like others in... read more →
Sep
14
How many dimensions do you operate in? Behold yon miserable creature. That Point is a Being like ourselves, but confined to the non-dimensional Gulf. He is himself his own World, his own Universe; of any other than himself he can form no conception; he knows not Length, nor Breadth, nor... read more →
Sep
13
This is the season of anticipation. Last week I talked about the unusual temporal turducken we just experienced. We, like that dish of a chicken nested in a duck nested in a turkey, experienced an extended weekend beginning with Hanukkah, middling with Thanksgiving and “begending” with Advent. As I reflect... read more →
Sep
12
Choose a heading below to jump to the corresponding section: Featured Article: What Strategic Planning is NOT News Break: Merger & New Team Member Announced Success Story Having trouble viewing? Download PDF version. What Strategic Planning is NOT In the next few editions of The Strategic Edge Newsletter, we will... read more →
Sep
11
Our financial practice can never be replicated by a robo-advisor. Have you ever said or thought this about robo-advisors or any other technological advance? Consider the following predictions about the radio and phonograph by Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb, the movie camera and the phonograph. He’s probably most... read more →
Sep
10
It is one thing to study war and another thing to live the warrior’s life. —Telamon of Arcadia, mercenary of the fifth century B.C.E., as quoted in The War of Art, p. 61. Study is a good and necessary stepping stone to life. Telamon no doubt had to “study” to... read more →
Sep
09
We’ve seen momentum shifts in games: it happens in basketball games where one team seems to drain every shot. The other team looks flat-footed and tosses nothing but bricks. On the other hand, we rarely examine a momentum shift in our own lives. We may say it’s fate or luck,... read more →
Sep
08
This week's post is co-authored by Kevin Condon, an associate of JHA. Please see his bio below. When one buys or sells a firm, there are a number of key questions to consider. The “science” relies on clear cut questions with quantifiable, or at least unambiguous, answers. The “art” relies... read more →
