Exploring Possibilities With Bruce Werner: Lead To Succeed 95

Your biggest asset it not your money, or even your business. It’s your time! You can always get more money but your time here on earth is limited. How can you make the most of it? And how can your family business serve as an asset to achieving your financial and fulfillment goals, assuming you even know what they are?

Good news! Lead to Succeed 95 guest Bruce Werner has the answers! Bruce is the Managing director of Kona Advisors LLC. Bruce provides strategic, governance, and owner advisory services to middle market businesses. His range of assignments has included governance, strategy, finance, M&A, workout, succession planning and all facets of family business consulting.

Bruce has the capacity to lead businesses from where they are to where they want to go by helping the owners define what they really, really want.

Listen in and learn more about governance and owner advisory services to middle market businesses.

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Key Talking Points of the Episode:

[02:26] Who Bruce serves and how.

[05:28] How does Bruce help people create their vision.

[11:37] How Bruce helps clients identify their maximum opportunity.

[16:07] What Bruce learned when his first business went broke.

[20:19] What is happiness and how do we reach it.

[26:50] What are Bruce’s biggest challenges in business governments and what role does he play in it.

[28:55] What do great boards do to help the organization evolve and what do they avoid.

[31:47] What are the unique challenges as well as opportunities in family businesses?

 [34:52] What is Bruce’s book about.

[36:15] Bruce’s biggest mistake and how he grew from it.

[36:46] Rapid Fire.

[37:55] A final life lesson.

Standout Quotes from the Episode:

“There is a difference between working in the business and on the business.”

“Time is the most precious thing we have; you cannot make more of it.”

“You need to decide if you want to take a step for it or not.”

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