If you’re a leader thinking about making a change in your career, a new MBA looking to launch into leadership, or maybe a seasoned entrepreneur through acquisition you know that the road to identifying an organization to purchase is littered with the corpses of those that did not conduct … [Read more...] about Acquisition Entrepreneurship – Selecting Professional Advisors
The Leadership Challenge: Decision-Making – Three Tips!
The Point: We all make thousands of decisions daily. Take for instance your drive into work today; Did you take the same route as you always do? Did you take the road less traveled? Would you alter routes if you heard about the accident ahead that has traffic snarled to a stand still? My point is … [Read more...] about The Leadership Challenge: Decision-Making – Three Tips!
The Leadership Challenge: Judgement
The Point: What type of judgement do you have as a leader? Is it sometimes good, sometimes bad? And in those judgement-times, how do you go about deciding which way to choose? After all, there is a “right” way and a “wrong” way when it comes to judgement (especially when you consider the outcome of … [Read more...] about The Leadership Challenge: Judgement
The Leadership Challenge: Surveys
The Point: We see a lot of surveys at both Tip of the Spear Ventures and The Javelin Institute (We’ve partnered with organizations to even create a few!) But a conversation with a client the other day caused us to wonder; “Why are we conducting surveys?”, “What do we do with the data surveys … [Read more...] about The Leadership Challenge: Surveys
The Leadership Challenge: Insecurity – 3 Tips!
The Point: What do you get when you cross a bully, a know-it-all, an underperformer, a spotlight-grabber, a perpetual reward-seeker, a comparer, an imitator, and tenure? The answer: an Insecure Leader! It got us wondering here at Tip of the Spear HQ just why/how could the trait of insecurity … [Read more...] about The Leadership Challenge: Insecurity – 3 Tips!
The Leadership Challenge: Competitiveness
The Point: If nothing truly happens in business until you sell something and the Darwinian principle of “only the strong survive” is alive and well in business today, we scratched our heads here at Tip of the Spear pondering exactly what role individual competitiveness plays across industry. After … [Read more...] about The Leadership Challenge: Competitiveness
The Leadership Challenge: Ownership Mentality
The Point: At Tip of the Spear Ventures, we believe in leading from the front… Not the middle, and certainly not from the rear. This leading from the front-mentality is one that we encourage our Business Advisory Service clients (M&A | Sales/BizDev | Turnaround) to take as well. However, working … [Read more...] about The Leadership Challenge: Ownership Mentality
M&A: The New Rules of Mergers & Acquisitions – 5 Tips!
The Point: As part of our Business Advisory Service for Sales/BizDev at Tip of the Spear Ventures, we’ve encountered a number of organizations that are considering selling/merging with another organization. As such, they’re great candidates for our M&A (Mergers & Acquisitions) advisory … [Read more...] about M&A: The New Rules of Mergers & Acquisitions – 5 Tips!