Posts by Craig West

Five Roles to Evolve Beyond Your Leadership Comfort Zone
In this episode, Brad Giles discusses his work as a leadership coach and his passion for growing mid-market businesses. His interest has led him to...

Ownership Mindset – How to Get Your Employees to Think and Act Like Business Owners
Ownership Mindset is a business model that encourages employees to think and act like business owners. Having your employees thinking and acting as a...

Tax Treatment of Employee Share Schemes for Startups
Employee Share Schemes, Employee Share Ownership Plans (ESOP), and several other forms of Employee Ownership all offer one key benefit – they...

China, COVID-19 – How things may play out for both import and export from China for mid-market businesses
In this episode, host Craig West is joined by Michel Clifton, Principal of MJC Asia Consulting, who has 20 years of experience in trade and...

Management Succession
Build a career path for your people and a succession path for yourself. Adding people to and moving people around within the management team is...

COVID-19 and the Federal Budget – The Effect on Business Valuations and Buyers
2020 has been a very unusual year – drought, bushfires, COVID and most recently a national budget like no other with massive amounts of...

Intangible Assets – The Secret Sauce to Business Valuation
Michael Masterson, Managing Director for EverEdge Australia and New Zealand, speaks about the importance of valuing the intangible assets of your...

Amreeta Abbott joins Succession Plus
Succession Plus is pleased to announce that Amreeta Abbott, a founder of NowInfinity (which sold earlier this year to Class for $25mil) has joined ...

Transform Yourself and Transform Your Business
Mark Napper understands that business owners and their businesses are heavily intertwined. Owners often become enslaved to their business instead of having their business serve...

Private Binding Rulings on Peak Performance Trusts
Generous tax concession for ESOPs: tax deductible contribution for the employer business, no tax in the ESOP and tax deferral for up to 15 years...