Product Description
by Mike Teng (Author)
Everyone wants to be their own boss. The easiest way to do this is to have your own business. You can own a business and be your own boss. But to own a business, you either need to start your own business or buy an existing business. Starting a business is not for everyone but yes just about anyone and everyone can buy an existing business. This book will guide you on how to buy an existing business for the right prices, turn around the business if the business you purchased is a sick business and how to grow your business through mergers and acquisitions. Through mergers and acquisitions, you can grow your business many folds. Once your business has grown, you may want to sell it and get back your nvestment and a profit. This book will also guide you on how to sell your business for the best price. It is written by a practitioner who has gone through several mergers and acquisitions as well as turn around troubled businesses and sold them away for a great profit.
Author Biography
Dr Mike Teng is the author of a best-selling book "Corporate Turnaround: Nursing a sick company back to health", in 2002 which is also translated into the Bahasa Indonesia. In 2006, he authored another book entitled, "Corporate Wellness: 101 Principles in Turnaround and Transformation. He also published in 2007/2008 six management books, namely entitled: Internet Turnaround: The Use of Internet Marketing to Turnaround Companies; Training Manual: Corporate Turnaround and Transformation Methodology; Link Baiting to Improve Your Page Ranking on Search Engines and Corporate Turnaround: Global Perspective as well as Fundamentals of Buying and Selling of Companies and What we can Learn from the Animals on Office Politics. Dr Teng is currently the Managing Director of Corporate Turnaround Centre Pte Ltd which provides corporate training and management advisory services. He has 28 years of experience in corporate turnaround, strategic planning and operational management responsibilities in the Asia Pacific. Of these, he held Chief Executive Officer's positions for 18 years in multi-national and publicly listed companies. Dr Teng served as the Executive Council member for fourteen years and the last four years as the President of the Marketing Institute of Singapore (2000 - 2004), the national marketing association. Dr Teng holds a Doctor in Business Administration (DBA) from the University of South Australia, Master in Business Administration (MBA) and Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering (BEng) from the National University of Singapore. He is also a Professional Engineer (P Eng, Singapore), Chartered Engineer ( C Eng, UK) and Fellow Member of several prestigious professional institutes namely, Chartered Institute of Marketing (FCIM), Chartered Management Institute (FCMI), Institute of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE), Marketing Institute of Singapore (FMIS), Institute of Electrical Engineers (FIEE) and Senior Member of Singapore Computer Society (SMSCS).
