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The 1000-Day CEO · Book 4 · Days 731–1,000
Exit Readiness
Run the Company Someone Pays a Premium For
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Year three: value and exit — run the company the way a buyer would want to find it.
About the book
Book Four of The 1000-Day CEO. Every company is for sale at some price, and the best-run ones are always ready. Always Be Exiting is the third year: value, readiness, and the discipline of running a company the way a buyer would want to find it — whether or not you ever sell.
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“What Mr. Canady has done here is curate a business system of complementary processes that make a material impact on business performance. If you are looking for a way to pull your business together and get your teams focused on the few things that truly matter, start here.”
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Buy businesses, integrate acquisitions and prepare the exit.
“How do I buy, build and sell for more?” Before you buy or sell
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Read it long before you plan to sell. Use it to run the company exit-ready every day — the numbers clean, the bench built, the system documented — so the premium is yours to command when the time comes.
Read it with The Owner’s Edge · Buy the Platform, Build the Exit · The Integration Playbook · How to Become a Board Member
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The author
Bill Canady runs two billion-dollar-plus companies — one at $1.1 billion and one at $1.5 billion — as Chairman and CEO of Arrowhead Engineered Products and Chairman of OTC Industrial Technologies. Across global industrial markets he has delivered over $3 billion in shareholder value. A U.S. Navy veteran with an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, he created the Profitable Growth Operating System (PGOS). He is the author of The 80/20 CEO, The Rule of Three, and other books in the Eighty20 library.
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