*Unprepared, the security and value of SMBs will decrease over the next decade:

• Over the next decade, up to 8 million privately-held SMB companies will be sold—“baby-boomer owners” seeking retirement.
• 66% will not transfer to the next generation—kids reject the uncertainty of parent’s lifestyle
• The volume of companies for sale will reduce the purchase prices—supply-demand economics
• Preparing for an inevitable owner exit will help avoid a major dilemma tomorrow.
• Preparing for tomorrow can produce profit today.
• Personality driven businesses are worth less than companies using a management system capable of balancing inspiration and discipline.

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 What’s your endgame?

• Few SMB owners have an answer to this  important question.
• Many consider themselves too busy to consider their options.
• They behave like they own the job—not a company.

A ten step solution:

1. Clarify cultural values to establish behavioral guidelines and focus a vision of the preferred future
2. Teach people to inspire and support each other
3. Discover the pain of customers
4. Develop remarkable solutions
5. Create an integrated strategy that will guide rather than sell customers
6. Create a “purpose-full” master brand (tag line) that inspires both customers and employees
7. Adopt a supervisory protocol that will hold people accountable—for everyone with direct reports
8. Extract how the business operates out of people’s heads and into documented processes.
9. Implement an employee centered continuous improvement system.
10. Move away from a personality driven departmental structure towards managing by process discipline

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