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	<description>John Reddish on Business Succession</description>
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		<title>Small Business Resources</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve gathered several resources of interest to small business owners and those wanting creative retirement alternatives. I&#8217;ve also included a couple of recent articles in which I&#8217;ve been quoted. Enjoy the read!

5 Alternatives To Traditional Retirement &#8211; US News &#38; World Report June 7, 2010 http://money.usnews.com/money/retirement/articles/2010/06/07/5-alternatives-to-traditional-retirement.html
 Pew Trust &#8211; &#8220;Small Business Most Trusted! http://www.startupnation.com/blogs/index.php/2010/05/12/pew-study-small-business-most-trusted-institution/

Recent press [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesuccessionplanner.com/doing-business-better/small-business-resources/2010/08/</link>
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		<title>When Family Members Want, Need, To Leave The Business?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How to prepare a family business in advance, and what to do when you haven’t been able to prepare. It happens: people die, retire, get sick, get married and divorced, become disabled (physically and/or mentally), get cranky and sometimes, for whatever reasons, just don&#8217;t want to work together any longer – family or not.  Each [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesuccessionplanner.com/succession-planning/when-family-members-want-need-to-leave-the-business-2/2010/08/</link>
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		<title>IMO &#8211; This Company Is Getting Bad Advice!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In any 50-50 business a "deadlock" provision is a critical tool - every time.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesuccessionplanner.com/doing-business-better/imo-this-company-is-getting-bad-advice/2010/03/</link>
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		<title>Family Businesses &#8211; Treasured Heirlooms!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In many families there is a giving ritual.  Treasured heirlooms are given from one generation to the next.  Parents carefully think about what would be treasured by each child, and they are gifted accordingly.  What’s often unspoken is that the parents feel the gift will be both treasured and maintained.
Ownership of the family business is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesuccessionplanner.com/succession-planning/family-businesses-treasured-heirlooms/2010/01/</link>
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		<title>Don’t Bother with © or ™ Unless You Work It Consistently</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyrights are great.  They protect your unique expressions.  But once you copyright something, you lock it in stone.  The copyright covers that unique expression.  Change a few words and it’s a new copyright, perhaps a derivative, but new, nonetheless.
Trademarks and tradedress ( the packaging and design &#8211; how the brand is presented &#8211; the materials [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesuccessionplanner.com/doing-business-better/don%e2%80%99t-bother-with-%c2%a9-or-%e2%84%a2-unless-you-work-it-consistently/2010/01/</link>
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		<title>Biz Succession: Who’s Stepping Up?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who and what come next are critical to your exit strategies and business succession plans.  Sometimes you get to choose both who and what come next.  Other times, opportunity knocks. If it does, you need to be open to these possibilities, or you lose.
How can you be open to the unexpected?

It’s     [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesuccessionplanner.com/succession-planning/biz-succession-who%e2%80%99s-stepping-up/2010/01/</link>
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		<title>What Does Succession Mean to the Successor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Both management and ownership succession tend to focus on the exit strategy of the person in place.  It&#8217;s about their legacy, liquidity and letting go issues, and, their selection of a successor, either alone or with assistance.
Just as important, though, and often largely overlooked as an equally critical element of the process is the focus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesuccessionplanner.com/exit-strategies/what-does-succession-mean-to-the-successor/2009/11/</link>
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		<title>Business Leadership and Responsibility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The leader (who is often the primary owner or stakeholder) of the businesses, or organization, is responsible to see that the business is treated as an investment, both in terms of time and money commitments.
There may be paid managers and staff to perform some or even all of the day-to-day tasks, but ensuring an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesuccessionplanner.com/succession-planning/business-leadership-and-responsibility/2009/10/</link>
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		<title>Giving A Light Touch To Creating Twitter Community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My fellow Boomer and fellow Twitter buddy @CASUDI wrote on her blog, INCLINED TO DESIGN her experience in building community on Twitter.  It&#8217;s both easy (and good) reading, tells how she has build some nice relationships (including one with me) and lists some people who, if you want to build a Twitter presence, are just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesuccessionplanner.com/boomer-inspiration/giving-a-light-touch-to-creating-twitter-community/2009/10/</link>
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		<title>Business Owners and Contentment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just the other day, I happened on a Tweet from my friend David Newman (Not the composer, but @DavidNewman on Twitter.com), telling about a Gallup-Healthways study, called the &#8220;Well-Being Index,&#8221; that appeared in the New York Times (http://bit.ly/pqZRj).   Turns out that those happiest with their jobs are Business Owners @ 72% and Professionals @ 71%.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesuccessionplanner.com/boomer-inspiration/business-owners-and-contentment/2009/09/</link>
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