Read our interview with Jeff Ahola, CEO of The Ahola Corporation, a family-owned, national payroll and workforce management company that provides tools and resources for family enterprises. Jeff was a participant in the May conference, Capital City Family Reunion, organized by Family Enterprise -USA. Practitioner: Why did you decide to come to Washington to meet … Continue reading »
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Research and Practice: FBR Special Issue
The Practitioner is pleased to bring you the first in a series of preview articles from the FBR September 2013 Special Issue on Advising Family Enterprise, co-edited by Trish Reay, University of Alberta, and W. Gibb Dyer, Brigham Young University. This week’s feature is: The Effects of Goal Orientation and Client Feedback on the Adaptive … Continue reading »
Financial Time’s Global MBA Rank 2013
This week’s blog from the Practitioner features five of the Financial Time’s Global MBA Rank 2013. Please enjoy the latest takes on some familiar family enterprise topics from thought leaders around the world! Let’s start with INSEAD where FFI’s own Randel Carlock discusses the application of positive psychology to the ever popular topic of sibling … Continue reading »
The Benefits of Rest, Reprieve, Relaxation, and Rejuvenation
Two types of stress punctuate personal experience. Eustress (pleasant or curative stress) is inspirational and motivational. Distress destroys. Work-life balance depends on a manageable mix between the two and mismanagement has serious consequences. The clients with whom the distressed professionals interact may detect the symptoms before the advisor/consultant does. In this article John Lanier says … Continue reading »
Consulting / Education / Family Business / Family Enterprise / NextGen / Trends in Family Enterprise
Universities: A resource for you and your clients
According to today’s blogger Greg McCann, students who are members of family enterprises, whether or not they have worked or will work in the business, should have at least a basic grounding in how family firms operate. For the professional family enterprise advisors, college and university family business programs can be valuable educational tools for … Continue reading »
How Coaching and Consulting Work Together to Complete the Puzzle of Sustainable Change, an article by Carmen Lence
In her article, “How Coaching and Consulting Work Together to Complete the Puzzle of the Sustainable Change,” Carmen Lence examines the challenge of facing change in a family enterprise and how the coach and the consultant working together can create stability around what is often a fearful moment in the life of the family and … Continue reading »
Media Watch
In this issue, the Practitioner studies the four buckets holding our core disciplines. Behavioral Science: The New York Times tells us, “Why Innovators Get Better With Age.” The graying of America’s most active innovators benefits all of us at many levels. Read the article here. Finance: In the United Kingdom, an article explains how “Family … Continue reading »
Family Business / Family Business Review / Finance / Governance / Research in the Field / Trends in Family Enterprise
Research Applied: FBR Summaries for The Practitioner March 2013
Karen Vinton’s Executive Summaries recap two articles from the March 2013 issue of FBR. In Should My Spouse Be My Partner? Preliminary evidence from the panel study of income dynamics, by W. Gibb Dyer, W. Justin Dyer, and Richard G. Gardner, the authors use study data to review the impact on a family business if it … Continue reading »
Byte Up! Guest Blog from Boris Matijas
In this issue The Practitioner is pleased to have a blog by FFI member and member of the Practitioner Editorial Board, Boris Matijas. He comments on the transformation of the industrial era towards the information society, and the impact it has to the family businesses. Byte Up! By: Boris Matijas When Nicholas Negroponte, prophesied that, … Continue reading »
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King Lear’s Fool: The role of advisors
In his article, King Lear’s Fool—The role of advisors, Dean Fowler encourages collaboration among professionals, but also argues for the individual consultant to gain mastery in an area other than his or her field of origin. Mirroring the continuing micro-specialization of education, vocational training and post-graduate study in society, the field of family enterprise consulting … Continue reading »
