From Silence to Cohesion: What One Family’s Experience Reveals About the Role of Narrative in Successful Succession
Thank you to Jamie Yuenger, founder of StoryKeep, for this article, which is a companion piece to the FFI Practitioner podcast episode, “The Power of Narrative in Family Businesses: A Conversation with Jamie Yuenger and Lisabeth Sugahara.”
The Inherited Bind: How Differentiation of Self and Invisible Loyalties Can Shape Family Businesses’ Succession
Thank you to Guillermo Salazar, Ritu Julka, and Maria Milanetti from the Systems Thinking Virtual Study Group for this week’s edition.
Trust in the Family Enterprise: A Model and a Case Study
As with the April 16 FFI Practitioner issue, today’s article is a conversation starter in which Emily Bouchard and Charles Feltman use a model and a case to open conversations that can repair conflicts and build trust among client families.
The Fantasy of Happiness
Thanks to FFI Fellow Guillermo Salazar for this thought-provoking reflection on “happiness” and how the concept of “dysfunction” can play out in the consulting process.
Research Applied: FBR Précis for FFI Practitioner
Thank you to this week’s contributor and member of the Applied Research Board, Kavil Ramachandran, for his précis of “Kinship and Gender in Family Firms: New insights into employees’ organizational citizenship behavior.”
Conversation-Starting Articles to Share with your Clients
One of the primary goals of FFI Practitioner is to provide readers with thought-provoking and practical articles to improve the services they offer to their family enterprise clients and the field in general. To further this mission, this week, we are pleased to feature a selection of articles addressing common topics, across disciplines, that can be used as examples or conversation starters with clients.