Handing Over a Responsible Family Business: The benefits of formalising social and environmental responsibility practices
Running a family business with responsible strategies is a complex undertaking.
Innovation and Family Traditions: Are they contradictory in the Middle East?
In these situations families are forced to think wider, deeper and differently. Families in business have to be aware of not letting their culture and family priorities block their ability to grow.
Navigating the Gray in Family Business: Notes to my clients
Have you ever felt conflicted? A part of you wants one thing, but another part clearly favors something else.
Balancing Personality Traits: Capitalizing on the strengths of our “true self”
Have you ever encountered a family business leader that needed to be the protagonist, had little tolerance of being criticized, was highly seductive and had a board of directors that admired him and hardly questioned him?
Dealing with Complexity through Different Contexts
In complex situations there are no simple solutions, but there can be different contexts that range from simple to complicated, chaotic or complex (Snowden & Boone, 2007).
A Lawyer’s Dozen: 13 Roles lawyers play for family enterprises
Choosing a lawyer for a family enterprise engagement is not a simple matter. In advising family enterprises, lawyers play at least 13 roles, involving different skills, experience, approaches and temperaments.
Enhance Your Work with Improv!
What is Improv and what does it have to do with our work as advisors to family enterprises?
How Do We Deal with Stubborn & Sphexish Family Members?
Every family is as unique as its members. However, when advising families in business, we sometimes find similar challenges and complexities to address.
Temporal Dimensions of Family Enterprise Research: A complex issue
In the March 2014 issue of Family Business Review, editors Trish Reay, Carlo Salvato and Pramodita Sharma offered an extensive introduction on the “Temporal Dimensions of Family Enterprise Research”.
Explaining Family Company Success and Survival
Families in business usually have a deep desire to see the family company prosper and survive into the next generation and to keep the family successful, united, and supportive of the family company.
Managing Complexity: Moving from succession planning to developing a family strategy
Over the last 10-15 years, we’ve seen a measurable shift in the complexity and speed of change in the world that we live in.