You Want Goodwill Payments? Give Proper Retirement Notice
No transition – no goodwill.
By Marc Rosenberg
Retirements & Buyouts
If there is one takeaway in retirement planning, it would be this: “No transition – no goodwill.” Here’s what I mean.
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The best of times and the worst of times…
With apologies to Charles Dickens, who famously opened his classic “A Tale of Two Cities” with the above, here are two real experiences I had regarding transition, one of which was the best example of retiring partner transition I’ve ever seen and one the worst.