Companies are outwardly different. One makes machine tools, another makes software, others want to sell you lunch or do your bookkeeping. Those differences are superficial. The most successful companies share five core characteristics. 1. Leadership at all levels. Leadership has to start at the top but it isn’t great unless it spreads throughout the organization….

In this series of posts, we’re examining the elements (or value drivers) that build transferable value: the value of your company without you at the helm. Transferable value is the type buyers look and pay for . Today we consider the multi-faceted growth plan that your business may require if you are to one day sell or transfer it for…