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JOIN WAYNE RIVERS AND CRAIG BUNDREN AS THEY DISCUSS:

00:46 - Wayne Rivers, “The Catalyst” 

01:05 - The Family Business Institute

02:45 - How Wayne got started

04:03 - Helping family businesses get unstuck 

06:26 - Roles, responsibilities and accountability 

08:10 - Family businesses falsely have “informality” 

10:19 - People make mistakes and that’s how we learn 

12:10 - Pray and Pay 

12:32 - People used to pass down family businesses, more than half today won’t pass within the family

14:40 - Exit strategies for family businesses 

16:40 - Accounting and Finance (looking beyond tax breaks) 

19:22 - Yes, you need a budget 

20:29 - Getting back on target 

22:58 - The problem with Covid is that it’s become so political 

25:45 - Business planning in a complicated climate 

29:19 - Looks like a brief and mild recession depending on your industry 

31:00 - We’re optimistic 

37:25 - You can tell a lot about a contractor based on a job site 

41:15 - Starting the Family Business Institute 

46:00 - Construction company peer group (peer audit) 

47:55 - Contractors are amazing consultants as long as they’re not looking at their own business 

49:24 - Be willing to open the books and get honest feedback 

52:06 - You don’t know what you don’t know 

54:44 - Drawing from the experience working with our clients as authors 

 

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Host: www.CraigBundren.com

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