The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Steve Preda – Buyable: Your Guide to Building a Self-Managing, Fast-Growing, and High-Profit Business

Steve Preda - Buyable: Your Guide to Building a Self-Managing, Fast-Growing, and High-Profit Business TURN YOUR BUSINESS INTO A VEHICLE TO REACH YOUR IDEAL LIFE Do you own a business that isn’t living up to its potential? Are you feeling frustrated by your company’s lack of growth, profit, or value creation? Do your employees wait for you to make decisions, instead of driving your organization forward? If you are facing one or more of the above scenarios, Buyable shows you a way out of this joyless rut. You can remodel your business into a self-managing, fast-growing, and highly profitable enterprise that allows you to live the life that you desire. The secret is to build Buyability into your business—and to do it before your company succumbs to the natural forces working against its success. When you consider that the life span of the average small business is less than nine years, that most companies never mature into the valuable businesses their owners intend, and that only 1 in 10 ventures ever finds a buyer, you can understand why it’s urgent that you transform your organization into a Buyable Business now. The good news is that any viable enterprise can be turned into a Buyable Business, by methodically following the guidance laid out in this book. And when you finally own that Buyable Business, you may find you never want to part with it. Keep or sell, Buyable shows you the fastest, straightest, and simplest route to Buyability. 
 By reading Buyable you will learn: • Why you need to build a Buyable Business regardless of whether you ever consider parting with it. • The difference between proactive and reactive entrepreneurs and how their approach determines their financial and emotional success. • How to design the ideal future state of your business, from which you can reverse-engineer the steps to getting there. • How to determine your personal financial goals, which your business should help you achieve. • How to estimate the value of your business right now and how you c