Building With the End in Mind: A Complete Succession Planning Guide for Professional Service Owners - Softcover

Grau Sr. JD, David

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798991262972

Verlag: Business Transitions Publishing, LLC, 2025

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Professional Services is one of the fastest-growing sectors in the United States, spanning fields such as:

• Technology Consulting
• Healthcare Services
• Financial Advisory / Wealth Management
• Legal Services
• Tax Professionals
• Veterinary Care
• Environmental & Sustainability Consulting

These and many other disciplines power our economy and help people live better, more productive lives. Most Professional Service Providers build successful careers but short-lived businesses. Few take the intentional steps required to create a multi-owner, multi-generational firm—one that grows in value, deepens client relationships, and carries their vision forward.

A succession plan is not a sale of your business. It is a professional and gradual transfer of ownership and leadership over ten to twenty years, if started early enough—a process that blends strategy, development, mentorship, finance, governance, and stewardship. It is how you build something that outlives you.

In Building With the End in Mind, you’ll learn the practical mechanics of succession planning through 50 concise but hard-hitting lessons, designed to help you build a profitable, valuable, investable, growing, and durable business—one that can one day work for you.

This book is written for current owners, founders, and first-generation (G1) Professional Service Providers, and for the legal, tax, valuation, and banking professionals who support them. A separate but companion volume—Acquiring Your Future Through a Succession Plan—is written for next-generation prospective owners, the G2s and G3s who will carry your firm forward.

Drawing on decades of experience as the leading succession-planning expert in the professional services space, former securities regulator, M&A specialist, magazine columnist, and attorney, David Grau Sr., JD, delivers a proven blueprint that will shape your business, your legacy, and your future.

(BRONZE MEDALIST - THE GLOBAL BOOK AWARDS / BUSINESS MANAGEMENT)

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David Grau Sr. is a full-time author and passionate advocate for small business stewardship. In a career spanning over three decades, David has advised thousands of small business owners on issues of succession planning and enterprise value. But more recently his focus has shifted - not away from business, but much deeper into its purpose. His current writing centers on a simple but powerful belief: that small business owners have the capacity, and arguably the responsibility, to leave the world in a better place than they found it.In his latest book, The Stewardship Advantage: Building a Profitable and Principled Small Business - with the Power to Change the World, David Sr. offers practical and professional guidance on how to be a good small business steward-not just of profits and shareholders - but of all stakeholders including one's community, customers, employees, suppliers, partners, officers, and the environment. He writes to a global audience of owners, leaders, and changemakers ready to do business differently...and better, for generations to come!

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Business Transitions Publishing, LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798991262972
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.de/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxemburg