Consulting Conversations: Maintaining Company Culture

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In this next installment of Consulting Conversations, Hank Harris shares a few pointers. I think the answer to both of those questions is somewhat similar. I think if you step back and think, 'what is a culture?' A culture is essentially shared behavior in an organization. One of the most importa...
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Consulting Conversations: SWOT Analysis in Business Succession

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In this installment of Consulting Conversations, Hank Harris breakdown what you should know. Well, taking that backward, nobody needs one. The question is should you have one. The SWOT analysis is a forerunner of strategic planning. It's an acronym that sums up the first piece or first phase of y...
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Consulting Conversations: Dealing with the Failed Successor

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In this installment of Consulting Conversations, Hank Harris answers:We'd like to think that everybody that gets picked as a successor will be the right answer and successful in what they do, but there are times when it doesn't work out that way. The hope would be that you have enough bench stren...
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Consulting Conversations: Leadership Development in Business Succession

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In this Consulting Conversations episode, Hank Harris answers:I think that a couple of things I've seen work well in leadership development in a family business: is I think that if you're bringing family into the business, it is much healthier if those family members work somewhere else and are r...
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Consulting Conversation: Market Penetration Approach

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Director of Consulting Hank Harris explains in this latest edition of Consulting Conversations.Who's going to win: the company with the wrong culture for the market or the market? It's an old saying that in a fight between you and the world, you should put your bet on the world. The market will w...
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Consulting Conversations: Outgrowing an Employee

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Director of Consulting Hank Harris explains in this latest edition of Consulting Conversations.If you have a growing business, you should expect that's going to happen. The classic example is somebody who starts a small business; they have a bookkeeper. Ten to 15 years later, they have a very suc...
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Consulting Conversations: Picking the Wrong Successor

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Director of Consulting Hank Harris answers the question in the latest installment of Consulting Conversations. Watch it now!We want to think that everybody that gets picked as a successor will be the right answer and successful in what they do, but there are times when it doesn't work out that wa...
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Consulting Conversations: Common Closely-held Business Issues

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Find out in the latest installment of Consulting Conversations from our Director of Consulting Hank Harris. Watch it now!I would say that that a big challenge in any closely held business is that we get close to our problems. And, it can be really, really hard sometimes to look at your business o...
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Consulting Conversations: Adopting a Strategic Plan - What's Next?

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Director of Consulting Hank Harris answers the questions in this episode of Consulting Conversations.Well, hopefully, what happens after you develop a plan is you implement it that's actually much harder than coming up with the plan.We'd love to hear from any private business hunt owner in North ...
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Consulting Conversations: Updating a Strategic Plan

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Director of Consulting Hank Harris explains in this latest edition of Consulting Conversations.I would say, normally, the answer to that is quarterly. You could make the argument that you don't want the strategic plan to exist in a parallel universe to running your business, so you want to try to...
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