The business owner understands the uncertainty that exists in business, for he or she lives with it every day. Tastes change, technology advances and tax laws are revised. Businesses adapt and move on. Change, however, is not limited to markets, technology and the bottom line. It is a part of everything around us, including life itself.
Life is fundamentally uncertain.
In the s pace of a moment, it can change dramatically and irrevocably. It is to that kind of change, as well, that business must adapt. It is business' adapting to significant change-death, disability and retirement of an owner. A business often owes its success to the drive, vision and creative energy of its owner or owners. When an owner leaves the business, regardless of the reason, it has an impact-sometimes an enormous one.