You only have to read the headlines to realize there’s very little political collaboration these days. And that’s within the two parties as well as between them. The ends of the spectrums are the noisiest and yet all surveys say most people aren’t radical left or radical right.
Could you see if our businesses were like that? We wouldn’t be in business. The buy-sell industry is very collaborative. Business buyers and sellers must get along and collaborate, as must their attorneys, CPAs, and intermediaries. Most do a pretty good job of it. But what about within a business?
Employees rule! There’s a war on talent these days. Employees have more choices and as per the June 14 Wall Street Journal (and other publications) workers are quitting their jobs at a higher rate than any time since the year 2000 and April 2021 saw a record number of people quit, almost 4 million.
Attracting and, especially, retaining good people is more important than ever. Covid still scares some of them, younger workers in particular. Many of those used to working from home like it, for at least a couple days a week. Employers have to be flexible or their employees will go somewhere else.
It reminds me of the dot com boom when fired employees went out and played until they had 30 days of severance pay left and then went and found a new job with better pay and better benefits. When speaking at outplacement agencies it was tough to get the agency’s clients to pay attention to entrepreneurship because jobs were so plentiful.
For business buyers the seller’s employee age range, the availability of good workers, and the flexibility they can offer people should be on the top of the due diligence list. And if business owners/sellers think it’s not their issue they’ll be in for a surprise.
“Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him.” Aldous Huxley
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