Bigelow MESSAGES
Every day at The Bigelow Company we have the privilege and great fun of "going to school" with our clients' businesses and their associated industries. This prompts us to capture our insights and observations in periodic Bigelow Messages. Feel free to scroll through our library.
- It's Not the Gale, it's the Set of the Sail
- Character Strengths of Entrepreneurs
- Appreciating Practical Wisdom
- Cash is a Fact; Profit an Opinion
- Terra Incognito
- Risk vs. Uncertainty
- How Do You Define Risk?
- Fighting With Our Self
- Loss Aversion
- Endowment Bias
- This is the Age of the Entrepreneur
- With Thanks to Peter Drucker
- The Bored of Directors
- Business Failure Guaranteed
- Following the Legend
- Is Your Business an Annual or a Perennial?
- Managing Uncertainty
- Mission Without a Cause
- Two Hats, One Head, Big Problem
- When Leading or Managing Becomes a Matter of Perspective
- Why Mergers Fail
- How Human Behavior Influences Value Creation in Business Combinations
- Consequences of Perspective
- Initiating Change in Turbulent Times: The Role of the Board and the Advisors
LESSONS LEARNED for Building & Capturing Value
If you are thinking of capturing the hard-earned value of your company someday, here are some concrete steps you can and should take well in advance in order to maximize your enterprise value. Click on a topic below to download a PDF of that lesson.
- Do You Think Like a Stockholder - or Merely as a Manager?
- Will Potential Buyers Care if You Have a Certified Financial Audit?
- How Will Private Equity Firms Value Your Business?
- Does Having an Advisory "Board of Directors" Increase Your Company's Market Value?
- Have You Considered a "Down Payment" on the Future Sale of Your Business?
- How Will You Know When It's the Right Time to Sell?
- What is the Value of Having a Well-Diversified Customer Base?
- Do You Need an Offshore Sourcing Strategy?
- Do You Know Where Your Industry is Headed - And is Your Business Taking Enough Risk?
- What Are You Doing to Protect Your Intellectual Capital?
- Is There Value in a Pre-Sale Legal Audit?
- Do You Use the Same Performance Metrics That the Leaders in Your Industry Use - And Does That Matter?
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