April2017

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Crafting The Perfect Design For Your Business

'Crafting The Perfect Design For Your Business' by Richard Shrapnel

There are ideal design principles that guide the structure and operation of any business, but very few leaders are able to maintain a continuing focus on them. Great businesses are only made by leaders who keep coming back to these…

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Compounding of Wealth #succession

Richard Shrapnel's Orienteering Succession blog

Often there is confusion about what family business succession is really all about, but honestly, there is only one answer. You may think, for example, ‘I haven’t really decided yet what to do with the business. I don’t think the…

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Structure Before Strategy, Always

'Structure before Strategy, Always' by Richard Shrapnel

There exists a well-entrenched business principle that you first devise your strategy, and then create the structure to deliver it. It’s wrong. Structure Always Follows Strategy I was participating in an advisory board meeting last year for an Australian group that is…

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