Container or Sponge? The Trusted Advisor Paradox in Long-Term Family Enterprise Relationships

WEEKLY EDITION • November 4, 2026

Thank you to Kent Choi, Hamza Nidaazzi, and Guillermo Salazar of the Systems Thinking VSG for this week’s edition, which explores how trusted advisors can recognize when long-term relationships begin to foster dependency. Drawing on family systems and systems psychodynamics, the authors offer questions to help advisors maintain boundaries and strengthen the family’s own capacity. This is the 7th article in our 2026 series from the FFI Virtual Study Groups.