by johnireland | Articles
Most business books about selling a company are written for people who want the highest number. Finish Big is written for people who want to be able to live with themselves afterwards, and that makes it a far more useful book for anyone thinking about succession. Bo...
by johnireland | The Book Shelf
John Warrillow’s Built to Sell is a short business fable with one test at its heart: if you were not here, would this still work? That is also the estate planning test. A business that depends entirely on its owner is not an asset that can be passed on — it is a...
by johnireland | Articles
Why This Book Belongs on an Estate Planner’s Shelf John Warrillow’s Built to Sell is written as a short business fable: Alex owns a struggling advertising agency, discovers that no buyer wants it, and rebuilds it into something saleable with the help of a...
by johnireland | The Book Shelf
Jim Collins studied 1,435 companies over 40 years to find out why some make the leap from good to great while others never do. The answer was not celebrity leadership, breakthrough technology, or being in a glamorous industry. It was discipline. The key ideas: Level 5...
by johnireland | Articles
The Question Behind the Research Jim Collins and his research team spent five years asking a single question: why do some companies make the leap from being merely good to being truly great — and sustain that greatness — while others in the same industries, with the...
