Welcome to the web blog of Celtar, a management consultancy company based in Dublin, Ireland .The MD, Billy Linehan, is a business adviser and professional business mentor. How we meet your needsProjects• Assisted company “in recovery” from recent years of poor sales, new focus on strategy – and how to implement it• Chair and act as secretary of monthly management meetings• Introduce staff centred performance management systems, train managers • Advise MD on board matters, and communicating with shareholders• Train management team on “High Performance”
Generally enterprises are growing across all sectors and industries, and businesses are adapting to changes in technology and the competitive environment. Strains arising from family relationships gone sour, from business transfer decisions and subsequent disentanglements from the business, and from the lack of detailed succession [...]
Billy Up to 25% of Irish family-run companies do not have a plan in place to deal with conflict between family members according to a recent report
Billy Nearly two thirds (62%) of UK SME owners often make difficult business decisions on their own with 9% having nobody to turn to for advice
Billy The keys to long-term success are professional management and keeping the family committed to and capable of carrying on as the owner, state the authors of a a recent article on McKinsey.com. The family business is an interesting model of a company with it’s own characteristics, inbuilt strengths and inbuilt weaknesses. The [...]
Billy “We’re a family business. We do what we like and we like what we do” Topflight are a leading Irish tour operator, and a client. I liked this piece about them in a major Irsh daily newspaper as it gives a flavour of the entrepreneur behind the company. It’s cold outside. It’s starting to rain. The phones are [...]
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