Buyable: Your Guide to Building a Self-Managing, Fast-Growing, and High-Profit Business

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 12 ventures ever finds a buyer, you can understand why it's urgent that you transform your organization into a Buyable Business now. Owning a Buyable Business-a business that others want to buy or invest in because they recognize its value and potential-allows you to enjoy the personal freedom of having a self-managing company that yields you the capital you need to pursue your personal purpose: the reason you were put on this earth. 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. If you have the desire to create an extraordinary company, this book can help you articulate where you're going; orchestrate your business into a self-managing, thriving entity; engineer in value drivers that boost growth; and lay a solid foundation for an eventual transaction in which you capture part or all of the value that you have created. 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."Buyable is a framework for creating a self-managing business. I highly recommend it."- Gino Wickman, author of "Traction"