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Research
Learn From Others & Innovate New Insights
Our general management and company building experience across a wide range of industries provides us with the backbone to partnering with business owners. Complementing this expertise is a drive to understand management best practices and tools development by some of the best business minds. We constantly cull sources ranging from popular business magazines, to leading edge research from highly regarded institutions, and retired CEOs.
It is important to note that we don't think of this research as the "holy grail", but rather an input to better decision-making and action. Sometimes this can shape a new strategy, or a better approach to achieving exceptional execution. Of course, there's no substitute to raw general management execution. Either way, some of the research we highlight here should provoke discussion around potential paths to value creation, either for the business as a whole, or to an individual.
The articles and research attached here include food for thought as you develop your own plans for growth. Muir has also developed a range of insights based on our professional experiences, perspectives we would be delighted to share with all interested business owners.
Owner Transition
Prepare For The Future...
The Monitor Group
Entrepreneur.com
5 Steps To Create A Viable Succession Plan For Your Family Business
Michael Evans
Forbes
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”
Sir Winston Churchill
Organization
Organization Design
McKinsey and Company
Building a Winning Culture
Paul Rogers, Paul Meehan and Scott Tanner
The Top 10 Qualities That Make a Great Leader
Tanya Prive
How Great Managers Manage People
Harvard Business School
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory, tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”
Sun Tsu,
Ancient Chinese Military strategist
Small Business
Demographics of Business Owners
Small Business Administration
Factors That Contribute to the Success of a Small Business
George N. Root III
Creat Your Own Business Plan
US Small Business Administration
Richard Branson
"You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."
Strategy
The Number You Need To Grow
Frederick F. Reichheld
5 Steps To Create A Viable Succession Plan For Your Family Business
Michael Evans
Forbes
"Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition."
Jack Welch
"In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goal posts are."
Arnold Glasgow
Tools
6 Tools Every Business Consultant Should Know
Margaret Andrews
Harvard Business School
Porter's Five Forces
Michael Porter
5 Strategies From The World's Greatest Sales Leaeders
McKinsey and Company
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