Some questions are eternal and constantly recur, and there are plenty of them in business. However, no matter how much the details of individual industries differ from others and how much certain core lines of business organization have their specificities, most of these questions boil down to the search for an answer on how to achieve the greatest value for the company or owner at a given moment, or what is the best time to maximize value.
In this regard, these questions are crucial when related to the issue of selling a company. How, then, to choose the optimal moment to sell a company or exit a business when operations are not going well, while simultaneously achieving the greatest value? What indicators should be monitored? And how can one justify the sale to oneself as a businessman, which vanity always recognizes as a defeat? We have dedicated this week’s topic to these questions.
Capitalism shows that it cannot simultaneously manage slow growth, the expansion of global debt, demographic challenges, extreme wealth growth among one percent of the population, preserve the environment, and keep AI under control. Perhaps this is its ninth out of nine ‘lives’, because, as Lider’s editor-in-chief Miodrag Šajatović claims in this week’s column, capitalism has exhausted itself, and there is no coherently designed replacement.
