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Get Your Leadership Team Right

If you’re running a financial planning business that wants to be around for the next decade and more, it’s vital that your leadership team is structured for success. The world is changing and successful businesses will need to adapt. A Harvard Business Review (HBR) article that I read recently, Reinventing …

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Three Non-Negotiables If You Run A Financial Planning Business

The only certainties in life? Death and taxes. The three certainties if you run (or aspire to run) your own financial planning business? You will attract more clients You will need to assemble a support team You will be the handbrake in your own business Lest you sit there and think these things don’t apply to …

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Are You The Only Voice For Change In Your Business?

What do you do if you’re the owner of a financial planning business and your gut tells you that your business needs to change, but there’s no hard evidence – it’s just a hunch? Worse still, what if you’re that owner but you’ve got business partners who just don’t share …

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Letter From A Successor To The Current Owner

Dear Owner,Thanks so much for your letter. I really appreciated the time you’d taken to let me into how you are feeling. That means a lot. I thought I’d repay the courtesy with an insight into my headspace right now. I’m hoping it continues to build on our relationship, which …

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Letter From An Owner To Their Successor

Dear Successor, I wanted to write you this letter explaining how I’m feeling right now. I know I should be able to share this with you face to face, but I’m struggling. Reaching the end of one’s career is a much more difficult time and transition than I ever gave it …

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