Month: February 2023
Your Journey through “No Man’s Land” with Doug Tatum, Chairman & CEO of Newport, LLC (Ep. 6)

Your Journey through “No Man’s Land” with Doug Tatum, Chairman & CEO of Newport, LLC (Ep. 6)

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While growing, businesses reach a point where they are too big to be small but too small to be big. This place is called No Man’s Land.

In this episode, Mark Dorman speaks with Doug Tatum, Chairman of Newport LLC and the author of No Man’s Land: Where Growing Companies Fail. Doug explains how the book came to be from his personal experiences leading a firm and how it helps small business owners looking to grow their businesses.

Doug discusses: 

  • What is No Man’s Land and how he discovered it
  • Why entrepreneurs are scared to take the step and leave their inner circle
  • The four M’s to navigate No Man’s Land
  • How entrepreneurs can expand their business without losing control
  • And more

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Doug is Chairman of Newport LLC, a national partnership of CEOs and senior executives who advise emerging middle market companies and assist private equity firms to invest in and grow portfolio companies. He is also a member of the Teaching Faculty at the Jim Moran School of Entrepreneurship at Florida State and also Advisory Board Chairman for the Business Dynamics Research Consortium at the University of Wisconsin – Extension. Previously, Doug was Chairman and CEO of Tatum LLC, which grew into a highly respected national professional services firm with 30 offices and over 1000 professionals and employees. Doug is the author of No Man’s Land: Where Growing Companies Fail, a leading text about growth companies that has been translated into several languages and has won four National Best Business book awards.  His insights about the economy and business have been cited in hundreds of media outlets including Inc. Magazine, The Financial Times, and The New York Times online.

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The Stages, Elements & Factors of a ‘Successful Exit’ with Bo Burlingham (Ep. 5)

The Stages, Elements & Factors of a ‘Successful Exit’ with Bo Burlingham (Ep. 5)

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You should run a business as if it’s going to last forever, but you could sell it tomorrow if you had to.

In this episode, Mark Dorman is joined once more by Bo Burlingham, contributing writer for Forbes and the renowned author of Finish Big: How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies On Top, diving into the different stages of exit planning and the strategies behind building a successful exit strategy.

Bo discusses: 

  • How the idea of an exit planning book came to be and why Bo wanted to write it
  • The four stages of exit planning in detail
  • Why all four stages are essential no matter where you want to end your time in the company
  • How exit planning impacts those around you
  • And more

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Bo Burlingham is an editor-at-large of Inc. magazine and the author of five books, the most recent being Finish Big: How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies on Top (Portfolio/Penguin, 2014). A previous book, Small Giants: Companies That Choose To Be Great Instead of Big (Portfolio/Penguin, 2006), was one of five finalists for the 2006 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year award. 

A former Fulbright Scholar and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Burlingham graduated from Princeton University in 1967 with a B.A. in public and international affairs. Bo and his wife, Lisa, have been married for 44 years and live in Oakland, California, and Sancerre, France. They have two children and four grandchildren.

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