We hope you’ve been enjoying the articles published in FFI Practitioner so far this year. This week, we’re pleased to share the most popular editions from the second quarter of 2024!

Thank you to co-authors William Kambas and Linda Meade for this week’s FFI Practitioner, which begins a periodic series of editions dedicated to topics related to private trust companies.

In this week’s FFI Practitioner, FFI Asian Circle Virtual Study Group member Aik-Ping Ng discusses how family enterprise advisors can use the Enneagram, a personality assessment tool, to help guide their clients through conflict and improve communication.

Thank you to Doutzen Groothof and Don Optatrny for this week’s edition of FFI Practitioner. Doutzen and Don recently traveled to Japan, and this journey gave them a renewed appreciation for the power of curiosity, both in family advisory practice and beyond.

FFI Practitioner is pleased to feature a podcast conversation with Sasha Lund, Jessica McGawley, and Larisa Miller, discussing a recently published Special Report from Globe Law and Business publisher: The Rising Role of Women in Family Offices and Family Businesses.

Continuing our curated editions this year, we have asked FFI GEN faculty members to choose their favorite articles or podcasts for our “Articles and Podcasts We Love” series.

In this week’s edition of FFI Practitioner, Matthew Erskine explores how the principles of disaster theory can be adapted for single-family offices.

Thank you to Isabella Otero, PhD, for this article discussing the benefits available to clients who consider management of the family firm holistically, approaching it as a diversified portfolio rather than a single business.

Thank you to FFI Fellow Patricia Annino, member of the 2025 Conference Program Committee, for this article about the many complexities to consider when a client wants to leave a family enterprise.

Thank you to FFI Fellow Dan Frosh for this précis of “Legal Advisors and Family Business Owners: A Transaction Cost Understanding of ‘the Ownership Contract.”

In this issue of FFI Practitioner, we are pleased to feature an article, “Judgment in Family Firms: What You Can Do to Improve Yours,” by the 2086 FFI Scholar-in-Residence, Sir Andrew Likierman.

The 2086 Society enhances FFI’s leadership in applied research for family enterprise professionals and researchers by providing annual grants to advance knowledge in multi-generational family enterprise management.

As 2024 is coming to a close, it’s time to reflect on the year that that was for FFI Practitioner by counting down the 10 most popular editions of the year!

Thanks to Mette Ballari for today’s FFI Practitioner article, which discusses the missing link in family business growth.

In this week’s edition of FFI Practitioner, Phelps Wood and Bill Stranberg highlight strategies for family enterprise advisors to consider when client families first bring a non-family executive into the business as CEO.

Thank you to the authors of this week’s FFI Practitioner, Devin DeCiantis and Ivan Lansberg, for this article discussing the strategies that enterprising families in emerging and frontier economies deploy to navigate unpredictable environments.

This week we are pleased to continue our series of guest-curated FFI Practitioner articles with Sian O’Neill, founder of publisher Globe Law and Business.

Since its inception, FFI has always been committed to excellence, fostering academic research, encouraging best practices, and inspiring professionals.

Thank you to William J. Kambas, David Guin, and Elliot Katz for this article, which provides a high-level introduction to the complex topic of compensation and incentive systems for family office leadership.

FFI Practitioner is pleased to feature a podcast conversation with H.R.H Princess Nandi Zulu, a distinguished member of the Zulu Royal Family, who is part of the 2086 Society's grant to the Nomadic School of Business.