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At Copper Beech Company, we believe that planning for the future helps create the future you want. Through business coaching we help clients identify goals and we care about the results our clients achieve. Whether the goals are improving financial position, growing the business, transitioning management and ownership. Helping Clarify goals, plan the route and holding the client accountable for achieving the milestones along the way is how we bring value to the engagement.
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Why Intrapreneurship is Important in a Changing World
Intrapreneurship is the act of behaving like an entrepreneur while working within a large organization. Intrapreneurship is known as the practice of a corporate management style that integrates risk-taking and innovation approaches, as…
Thinking of starting a business? Thoughts and tips
I often talk to people about retiring and starting a business. A famous example is Colonel Sanders who started his finger-licking chicken business at the age of sixty five. Retirement…
You Should Allocate Your Insurance Budget Based on Risks You Face
Jack and Jill had returned to my office to talk about insurance and they had brought their spouses, Jane and Dick. Our discussion a couple of weeks ago had triggered…
Wealth vs. Prosperity
We hear a lot about wealth; it’s the devotion to wealth that keeps our banks and money managers.…wealthy; wealth management, growing wealth, protecting wealth. Prosperity on the other hand is…
Mentor of the Year Award
Many (many) years ago I started my own business, a public accounting practice in Niagara. My wife and I had spent some months traveling – winter in the South Pacific,…
Winning it’s not everything, it’s the only thing?
I have found myself wondering, in recent weeks, what my thought process would be if I was an executive in the sports complex at Penn State University, when emails about…
Investing in the Family.
Shortly before my father died, at the age of 80, I asked him why he and my mother had decided to up-root the family and move with their four sons…
The Need for Conflict
My father told me you can’t have progress without friction. When I go to the trusty Thesaurus (that is only a click away when I am writing my blog) there…
The Boss Died, Now What?
Judith watched in disbelief as the paramedics wheeled the stretcher carrying Fred’s body past her office. A distraught Emily, Fred’s wife, followed, supported by Al, Fred’s partner in the business….
Leadership in the Family
Authority and control exercised by a leader can serve to constrain the team members or provide guidance and direction through what I call strategic leadership. Family business management operates at…
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