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New Year’s resolutions While many of them might have flopped, you still have a chance to make the most important one a reality – ownership transition.
W elcome to March! And congratulations on making it through all those resolutions! You’ve hit the gym, worked on your diet, started studying that foreign language you always wanted to learn, joined Toastmasters, and worked on your weekly speech. How have all those worked for you?
Ted Maziejka
Odds are you started out great but your energy and enthusiasm have fizzled. “How about switching gears and resolving to get serious about leadership and ownership transition in the next few months?” So how about switching gears and resolving to get serious about leadership and ownership transition in the next few months? As you ponder the future of your firm, there are many thoughts running through your head:
❚ ❚ Do I have the right second and third tier in place? ❚ ❚ Do they want to be owners? Do they know what that means? ❚ ❚ How are they going to buy my and my partners’ shares? ❚ ❚ How am I going to transition our solid leadership team to new leaders? ❚ ❚ What the heck am I going to do and how am I going to let go of something I’ve been doing for 30-plus years? ❚ ❚ Will I have a role in the future organization? Having worked with many senior leaders over the See TED MAZIEJKA, page 12
THE ZWEIG LETTER March 13, 2017, ISSUE 1191
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