The Point: At Tip of the Spear, we’re “lucky” to get exposure to a lot of leaders. Each of these leaders has their own unique way of speaking, and let’s face it, some speak better than others! With a wide-range of personalities, backgrounds, and goals, each executive seems to bring their own … [Read more...] about The Leadership Challenge: Executive Vocabulary – 3 Tips
Mergers & Acquisition Disruption for Exponential Growth: How Amazon’s Purchase of Whole Foods Upended Retailer’s Strategic Plan – 2 Tips!
The Point: When Amazon announced that they were buying Whole Foods for close to $14 billion, the stock price of Amazon rose to 2.4%. This stock price lift was reported by the news to add roughly $11 billion to Amazon’s market capitalization. At this same period, the stock price of Sprouts decreased … [Read more...] about Mergers & Acquisition Disruption for Exponential Growth: How Amazon’s Purchase of Whole Foods Upended Retailer’s Strategic Plan – 2 Tips!
The Leadership Challenge: Receiving Recommendations – 5 Tips!
The Point: Receiving recommendations can be tough for a leader. For example, the Ides of March are best known for their recognition of the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44BC. Said to have been warned by a seer earlier in the month that “Harm will befall you by the middle of the month,” Caesar … [Read more...] about The Leadership Challenge: Receiving Recommendations – 5 Tips!
Mergers & Acquisitions: The Problem with Acquisitions – 3 Tips!
The Point: The usage of acquisitions to divert and reshape corporate strategy has never been more prevalent than in today’s new economy. Today, many leaders prefer purchasing a company as a way of creating easy access to products, technology, markets, management talent, or assets as less risky and … [Read more...] about Mergers & Acquisitions: The Problem with Acquisitions – 3 Tips!
Business For Sale?
With the continued expansion of the economy, there's no time like the present for would-be entrepreneurs to consider launching a business (Especially when you consider the recent tax and regulatory reform). Tip of the Spear Ventures' Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Business Advisory Service was … [Read more...] about Business For Sale?
The Leadership Challenge: Narcissism – 10 Tips!
The Point: Some leaders go far beyond the abnormal ways of functioning in leading the business… They go right into the deep end of the narcissism pool!So that got us thinking here at Tip of the Spear Ventures, what would you do with a leader that loves themselves/their work-product far more than … [Read more...] about The Leadership Challenge: Narcissism – 10 Tips!
Can Business Development Efforts Lead to Less Sales? 3 Tips!
The Point: The common Sales Leader thought goes something like “Increased business development efforts lead to more sales.” But what if you, as a Sales Leader, increase your business development efforts and achieve less sales? We’ve run into this a few times here at Tip of the Spear when conducting … [Read more...] about Can Business Development Efforts Lead to Less Sales? 3 Tips!
Mergers and Acquisitions: Avoiding Culture Clash – 3 Tips!
The Point: For a successful mergers and acquisitions event to take place, there typically is an avalanche of financial figure reviews/due diligence (actual, forecast, and delta explanations from both buy-side and sell-side). But we asked ourselves here at Tip of the Spear Ventures, is there more to … [Read more...] about Mergers and Acquisitions: Avoiding Culture Clash – 3 Tips!