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To Business Owners: Are you familiar with exit planning? It's said that exit planning is good business strategy. Would you oppose the following idea? The things that need to be done to ensure a successful exit or transition are the same things an owner must do to lead a significant business that potential buyers find attractive. When you integrate exit planning into your daily business: - You understand the value of your business. - You understand the potential best-in-class value of your business. - You have identified the value driving factors in your business. - You have separate those value drivers into strengths and weaknesses. - You combine a plan that decomposes strategy into action with a leadership and management framework designed to accelerate value and close that value gap. - You protect those strengths and convert weaknesses into strengths. - You build and lead an attractive and ready business with transferable value that has the capability to mitigate vulnerabilities to external threats and take advantage of opportunities. And when you bring exit planning into the present and focus on value first, revenue and earnings tend to increase - success ensues. Exit planning is good business strategy. It's a practice. It's a discipline. It's a way. What do you think? #Leadership #BusinessGrowth #Entrepreneur #Vetrepreneur #DefenseIndustry #AerospaceAndDefense #ExitPlanning #ValueAdvisor #SmallBusiness #Business #VeteranOwnedAndOperated #VeteranOwned #MarineCorps #Navy #Army #AirForce #SpaceForce #CoastGuard @TheExitPlanningInstitute @VeteransInBusinessNetwork

"Remember the 5 D's of dodgeball: Dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge." - Patches O'Houlihan (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, 2004 ) While you can dodge a ball, business owners still have to come to terms with the fact that there is a 50% chance they will experience over their lifetime one of these 5D's: - Death - Disability - Divorce - Distress - Disagreement When integrating the discipline of exit planning into your business, one of the first things you do is to identify the current value of your business. This includes a business attractiveness and business, personal, and personal financial readiness assessment. The results of this type of assessment help identify risk areas, some of which may relate to the 5 D's listed above. From there, a prioritized action plan can be made that focuses on protecting value first by de-risking those value-influencing factors. #Leadership #BusinessGrowth #Entrepreneur #Vetrepreneur #DefenseIndustry #AerospaceAndDefense #ExitPlanning #ValueAdvisor #SmallBusiness #Business #VeteranOwnedAndOperated #VeteranOwned #MarineCorps #Navy #Army #AirForce #SpaceForce #CoastGuard @TheExitPlanningInstitute @VeteransInBusinessNetwork

Business Owners: How will you bridge the gap? By operating your business in a way that, as Christopher M. Snider puts it, "drives the income and, more importantly, the transferable value to create the financial resources to enable you to achieve your personal purpose." It's a question that many of my conversations revolve around as a defense acquisition professional where I plan and activate the businesses providing those maintenance and sustainment services to ensure an operationally available weapons system. For example: What are the required capabilities that are needed to support a system? (i.e. people, equipment, facilities, business operations etc.) What capabilities currently exist to provide that level of support to the system? What are my options for "bridging the gap"? Similarly, understanding your three gaps as business owner is equally as important for building and leading a successful and significant company with a ready-to-exit capability. It's all part of the Master Plan. By having a clear picture of your personal purpose and what your desired lifestyle looks like post-business, you can figure out what your net worth goal is. The first gap is your Wealth Gap = Your Net Worth Goal minus Your Current Actual Net Worth (not including your business) The second gap is your Value Gap = Best-in-Class Value at Your Level of Sales minus Your Actual business Value The third gap is your Profit Gap = Best-in-Class Profit at Your Level of Sales minus Your Actual Profit This is how you begin to build a strategy that's decomposed into action. Do you know your three Gaps? #Leadership #BusinessGrowth #Entrepreneur #Vetrepreneur #DefenseIndustry #AerospaceAndDefense #ExitPlanning #ValueAdvisor #SmallBusiness #Business #VeteranOwnedAndOperated #VeteranOwned #MarineCorps #Navy #Army #AirForce #SpaceForce #CoastGuard

Lots of good thoughts compiled here on the #complexity of #defense #acquisition. Of the "18 theses", I've written about: ✍ 5, 8 and 17 here: https://lnkd.in/gyxcGNXT ✍ 2, 7, 8, 11 and 17 here: https://lnkd.in/g-Di9G9p Here are my favorite takeaways, copied straight out the article, because they are stated so well: 💡 2: In the commercial world, people are viewed as expensive, and technology is considered cheap. In government, there is a perversion where people are viewed as abundant, and technology is viewed as unaffordable. 💡 3: We must be able to reprogram money inside of 2 months, not 2 years. 💡 4: Rotations for officers every 2-3 years only ensures they haven’t had enough time to learn anything beyond surface-level platitudes. (If we have officers managing programs, they need to live with the decisions they make!) 💡 5: The requirements process ensures we play to our weaknesses. 💡 7: Conway’s Law leads to the profane conclusion that CJADC2 (Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control, the Department’s vision for machine-to-machine connection across services and allies to close kill chains) isn’t possible inside the Military Departments as currently conceived... 💡 8: Enable CCMDs as the buyers approximates market forces. 💡 11: Companies must invest their own capital — their asses must be in the hot seat if we want innovation. 💡 12: Small business programs should not be welfare. 💡 13: Federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) have the false moral certitude of being “non-profits,” which is about as believable as America’s hospitals being non-profits. 💡 15: For any interesting class of problem (i.e. non-trivial innovation) it isn’t possible to deductively design a reference architecture. (It is also impossible to "integrate" systems that must continually evolve!) 💡 17: Today, we are told companies building for Defense cannot possibly understand the warfighter and that even the warfighter can’t understand what he really needs, that his needs must be intermediated through the Acquisition’s priestly class. The result is countless Kafkaesque causality dilemmas. Nick Sinai Heather McMahon Drew "Murph" Busbee Arthur Grijalva Heather Bogstie Riki Ellison Mark Montgomery Christopher Stone Rebecca Kern 🟡🟢Peter Mastro Brendan Hochstein

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PART 3🏠📉 Rate Cuts Announced! How Buyers and Sellers Can Save Big 💰🌍 The real estate market is shifting fast, and now’s the time to get ahead! In this video, I’ll break down how the Fed’s recent rate cut, global events, and corporate takeovers are shaping your next investment opportunity. Key insights: • How a 0.5% rate cut can boost your investments • Inflation, labor market changes & what they mean for you • Geopolitical tensions and their impact on real estate • How to compete against big corporations in 2024 DM me or comment "REAL ESTATE" now to start creating wealth & security through Real Estate. I create content weekly that helps keep you informed on market conditions and current Colorado listings. If you feel like I’ve earned it, please hit that like button to support! Visit my site now to book a quick 30-minute chat: TheMilitaryRealtor.KW.com TheMilitaryRealtor.US Real Estate Creates Real Wealth 🫡🇺🇸 #denver #denvercolorado #denverhomes #denverrealestate #coloradoliving #coloradorealestate #cherrycreek #washpark #highlands #house #househunting #houseforsale #housedesign #home #homedecor #homebuying #homeownership #military #militarylife #militarywife #militaryfitness #militaryfamily #veteran #veterans #veteranowned #army #navy #VALoan #militaryveteran #activeDuty

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PART 1🏠📉 Rate Cuts Announced! How Buyers and Sellers Can Save Big 💰🌍 The real estate market is shifting fast, and now’s the time to get ahead! In this video, I’ll break down how the Fed’s recent rate cut, global events, and corporate takeovers are shaping your next investment opportunity. Key insights: • How a 0.5% rate cut can boost your investments • Inflation, labor market changes & what they mean for you • Geopolitical tensions and their impact on real estate • How to compete against big corporations in 2024 DM me or comment "REAL ESTATE" now to start creating wealth & security through Real Estate. I create content weekly that helps keep you informed on market conditions and current Colorado listings. If you feel like I’ve earned it, please hit that like button to support! Visit my site now to book a quick 30-minute chat: TheMilitaryRealtor.KW.com TheMilitaryRealtor.US Real Estate Creates Real Wealth 🫡🇺🇸 #denver #denvercolorado #denverhomes #denverrealestate #coloradoliving #coloradorealestate #cherrycreek #washpark #highlands #house #househunting #houseforsale #housedesign #home #homedecor #homebuying #homeownership #military #militarylife #militarywife #militaryfitness #militaryfamily #veteran #veterans #veteranowned #army #navy #VALoan #militaryveteran #activeDuty

“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.” - Bruce Lee Approximately 80% of a business’s value is associated with its intangible capital. Learn how exit planning through the Value Acceleration Methodology makes competition irrelevant and helps reveal opportunities for you to take action and create value within your business today so you can say, “To hell with circumstances.” Interested? Download this free resource: https://lnkd.in/gwB8wh2c #Leadership #BusinessGrowth #Entrepreneur #Vetrepreneur #DefenseIndustry #AerospaceAndDefense #ExitPlanning #ValueAdvisor #SmallBusiness #Business #VeteranOwnedAndOperated #VeteranOwned #MarineCorps #Navy #Army #AirForce #SpaceForce #CoastGuard @TheExitPlanningInstitute @VeteransInBusinessNetwork #CEPA

PART 4🏠📉 Rate Cuts Announced! How Buyers and Sellers Can Save Big 💰🌍 The real estate market is shifting fast, and now’s the time to get ahead! In this video, I’ll break down how the Fed’s recent rate cut, global events, and corporate takeovers are shaping your next investment opportunity. Key insights: • How a 0.5% rate cut can boost your investments • Inflation, labor market changes & what they mean for you • Geopolitical tensions and their impact on real estate • How to compete against big corporations in 2024 DM me or comment "REAL ESTATE" now to start creating wealth & security through Real Estate. I create content weekly that helps keep you informed on market conditions and current Colorado listings. If you feel like I’ve earned it, please hit that like button to support! Visit my site now to book a quick 30-minute chat: TheMilitaryRealtor.KW.com TheMilitaryRealtor.US Real Estate Creates Real Wealth 🫡🇺🇸 #denver #denvercolorado #denverhomes #denverrealestate #coloradoliving #coloradorealestate #cherrycreek #washpark #highlands #house #househunting #houseforsale #housedesign #home #homedecor #homebuying #homeownership #military #militarylife #militarywife #militaryfitness #militaryfamily #veteran #veterans #veteranowned #army #navy #VALoan #militaryveteran #activeDuty