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Lorraine McGregor

Exit, Acquisitions & Succession

I was having lunch the other day with an M&A Lawyer and and M&A advisor who sells businesses with EBITDA greater than $5 million. We were comparing notes about why business owners, especially the successful owners, are so reluctant to talk about exiting their business one day.

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Lorraine McGregor

High Performance Teams

Leadership is an overused phrase.  Yet if you own a business, leadership should be your sharpest tool in your kit.

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Lorraine McGregor

Network of Teams

We’ve all heard the empty and meaningless debate about whether leaders are born or trained.

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Lorraine McGregor

Exit, Acquisitions & Succession

I am always shocked when I speak to a group of business owners about how to increase the value of their companies before they sell, at the reaction I get when I reveal to them the following statistics:

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Lorraine McGregor

Exit, Acquisitions & Succession

When it’s time, will you sell your company? How about when it’s not your time, but it’s the buyer’s time to buy a company just like yours? Will you pull the trigger and sign on the bottom line?

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Lorraine McGregor

Exit, Acquisitions & Succession

I spoke to a group of Investors and their investee companies this week.

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Lorraine McGregor

Exit, Acquisitions & Succession

Over on one of the LinkedIn Groups I’m part of, there is a debate going on about who should lead the charge to help business owners with their exits.

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Lorraine McGregor

High Performance Teams

Tim Ferriss of The 4-Hour Work Week fame, challenges business owners to get out of their ‘trapped lifestyle’. He teaches that the key to being rich is to escape the 9-5 routine and reinvent how your work gets done.