How do you protect yourself in the handover phase as you lead up to succession or sale? You’ve got to start handing over client relationships at some point and you certainly can’t wait until the exit date to get moving. Yet it’s a high risk move and many have been …
In Part 2 of our Lessons From Other Professions piece, Francis Klonowski gets a bit nervous about the anaesthetic as he gets closer to his knee replacement operation. It’s a fantastic lesson in how to be empathetic, whilst retaining control of the process, and not letting your client run the …
Francis Klonowski needed a knee replacement operation. He wasn’t excited about it for obvious reasons, but luckily for us he really paid attention to the process he was taken through by his medical team (and yes, it was a team, not an individual, just like in our profession). There are …
Many of you will have heard of Elon Musk, a South African-born, Canadian-American entrepreneur, engineer, inventor and investor. He co-founded PayPal, Space X, SolarCity and Tesla Motors (among other ventures). As of January 2016 he had an estimated net worth of $US12.4 billion, making him the 39th wealthiest person in …
Jim Stackpool: Australia About 12 months ago we featured an Aussie, Jim Stackpool of Certainty Advice Group, as our ‘Guest Blogger From Around The World’. So I thought I’d get Jim to kick us off again with something provocative. He hasn’t let me down. Over to you, Jim. This article …