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Working for Family Businesses - Part 1 -The StoneWood Perspective
It is the dominant form of business structure worldwide From farmers to small mom-and-pop shops to one-third of Fortune 500 businesses, estimates are that over 80% of businesses are family-owned or controlled,. These include global icons such as Michelin, IKEA, Tata, Ford, Roche, Henkel, Heineken, Cargill, Mars, Bacardi’s, Wal-Mart, Samsung, Bosch, and countless others.
Family business leaders are often the best and brightest executives in their industries. They run professional, innovative, aggressive companies that expand the horizons of innovation, productivity and efficiency. Some observers believe that family firms, with their lower leverage, long-term approach and loyalty to employees point the way to a more stable kind of capitalism in the future.
Arthy Sabapathy
DIG London Conference 2009
Connect with Canada’s leading video game developers, publishers, technology companies, service providers and emerging talent at DIG London 2009.
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The Transition Master - StoneWood Interview Series
An Interview with Robert Glegg, CEO of 2Source Manufacturing.Robert Glegg founded Glegg Water Conditioning, Inc. in 1978. Over the next two decades he built the Guelph, Ontario-based water treatment firm to a $150mm per year powerhouse before selling it to General Electric in 1999…
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Resilience in Tough Times - StoneWood Perspective
Executives around the world have been caught in a storm of market collapse, corporate failures, and mass layoffs. For a great many, the forecast remains unsettled if not downright bleak. Yet if history is any guide, the majority will weather the recessionary storm. Some will actually sow the seeds of success through the adversity while a few will, unfortunately never recover.
What determines an individual’s response to adversity? Why do some snap while others snap back? The answer has to do with an obscure, poorly understood human attribute, one that most people will not know they have until tested for it. It is resilience and those who have it will tell you that failure is not falling down, tripping or even being pushed to the ground .....it is staying down…
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Power Equations - Tech Capital Partners Blog
Recently I was asked to speak at a TechAlliance / Ernst & Young event in London, Ontario about valuations. I was speaking after Bill Armitage who was clear and understandable so there seemed little point in my getting in an arm wrestle over the finer points of valuation theory. I thought I would try to address some of the questions that I perceived these and many other entrepreneurs have been asking these days: 1. How do I find money? and 2. How do I get the best price…
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Managing A Portfolio of Growth Options: The Strategic Tradeoffs Between Growth and Risk
Author: Donald Baer and Bill Liabotis
There is no single path to growth. Any growth-focused enterprise owes it to its stakeholders to think out a series of alternative growth options and then critically assess each with respect to market dynamics, profitability potential, and risk. Focusing on a single growth option in isolation can lead to sub-optimal results and possibly disaster.
How to strategically manage the tradeoffs between growth and risk in a portfolio of growth options is the focus of this article. In the article, we develop a framework to assist leadership teams in determining the relative merits of alternative growth options and identifying those options with the strongest probability of success. The framework critically assesses each option with respect to:...