Recently we ran a survey of a small, anonymous sample of business professionals (age 50+ lawyers, accountants, business consultants, bankers and the like) who were working full time, asking them to rank various concerns (some of you may have participated, so thanks!). We then compared...
Read Moreby Jack Beauregard, author, founder, CEO of Successful Transition Planning Institute (STPI) One time my wife and I brought one of our granddaughters to the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay football game for her fourteenth birthday. We had to wait, however, until my daughter and...
Read MoreIn my younger days, I often felt that time went too slow. As I get older, I see that it really goes too fast. In the book "The Time Keeper" by Mitch Albom, we are told a story of the real Father Time, and how...
Read MoreI posted something on a Linkedin group once, and one person commented that she had been trying to get her 80 year old mother to retire from the business "for years", but that she gave up. Her mother went to work each day and was...
Read Moreby Paul Cronin, COO Successful Transition Planning Institute - Each Sunday I like to read the Boston Globe cover to cover (the actual paper, not online). Although I read a lot of online news, there is something about the ritual of reading a Sunday paper that...
Read Moreby Jack Beauregard, author, founder and CEO of Successful Transition Planning Institute (STPI) For those of you who find yourself wondering "who am I now?" and "what's next in my life?", please look at two new videos I made: 7 Principles for Living a Life of Significance...
Read MoreDuring this special season of gathering with friends and family, we are asking you to pause and give some thought toward a world with more peace. With the many troubles in our country and the world, if enough of us pause to do so, maybe...
Read Moreby Paul Cronin COO, Successful Transition Planning Institute My annual homage to Thanksgiving and the foibles of business succession in families, first published in 2011. You might be wondering what Thanksgiving has to do with Business Succession, but let me explain further. I was at a local...
Read MoreI had just returned from a round of golf with a friend who is also a neighbor (Jim). As we were unpacking the car, we saw another friend (Sam) still dressed in his shirt and tie, getting his mail. We were chatting, when Jim said...
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