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One Family, Multiple Businesses: Preserving Harmony and Profits
  For business or emotional reasons, sometimes one family ends up with more than one business under its umbrella. An entrepreneurial, ambitious family member may want to launch a new venture, or Read More...
Wealth Can be Hazardous to Future Family Business Leaders
Preparing the next generation for leadership is an important mission for family businesses. But all too often, the comfortable lifestyle that family wealth makes possible does not do the younger Read More...
The Biggest Mistakes Family Businesses Make With Their Boards
Family business researcher, lecturer, and advisor Claudia Binz Astrachan has studied first-hand how effective boards of directors steer family business management towards strategies that make the Read More...
Advice for Family Business Successors: Be Humble and Curious
  David Bentall found out the hard way that his leadership of his family's construction and real estate firm wasn't working: his own uncle removed him from the company. Losing his job was a Read More...
The Family Business 'Generation Gap' Can Undermine Success
The upcoming generation of family firm leaders often don't see things the same way as their parents and grandparents do. Professor Peter Jaskiewicz has explored this disconnect deeply in his new book Read More...
Should Your Next CEO be From Outside the Family?
In her discussion with Matt Nielsen of Nielsen-Massey Vanillas International, Editor Kimberly Eddleston goes into a sensitive topic for many family firms: whether an outside leader is better equipped Read More...
Non-Family Board Members Bring Perspective and Growth
  What happens at a family firm with shared ownership and leadership? Matt Nielsen, Managing Director of Nielsen-Massey Vanillas International Europe, is candid about the disagreements and Read More...
Growing Pains? Advice to Recharge and Sustain Growth
Over time, family firms often experience growing pains. The growth of their business may outpace their infrastructure and processes, or their infrastructure and processes may be stifling their Read More...
From Startup to Midsized Company: Managing the Growing Pains
  With a great product, smart strategy and lots of hard work, a startup can mature into a midsized company, defined as a firm with between $10 million and $1 billion in revenue. This stage is Read More...
How the Next Generation Can Earn Legitimacy, Respect and Loyalty
  Handing off the leadership of a family business is never easy, especially when the heir is viewed as entitled to the crown, rather than deserving of it. This interview with Robert Buday, Read More...

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