Your Family’s Continuity Journey: Progress or Paralysis?
What’s the Key Difference Maker? Each week here we look at something related to the world of successful families and the…
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Articles by Steve Legler on family business, family governance, succession, family wealth and the relationships that hold it all together.
The Case for Growing the Family Governance Space
When I discovered the field of family governance over a decade ago, it was just that, a burgeoning field. In the intervening…
From Silent Agreements to Shared Intentions: Revealing the Patterns That Shape Families
Family decision-making and roles often develop through long-standing habits shaped by shared history, loyalty, and expectations…
On Sovereignty and Self-Righteousness in Families
Revisiting Some Downsides of “My Way”. Much of my work time is spent thinking and talking about supporting families through…
Airplane Analogies for Enterprising Families
Family Enterprise Stories Take Flight. When you write a weekly blog, you never actually turn off your antennae for ideas that may…
Love, Wisdom, Money
Let’s Talk Family Enterprise Podcast Episode #76 Host: Steve Legler Guest: Buddy Thomas In this episode, host Steve Legler speaks…
On Confidence, Trust, and Lessons from Translations
Bilingualism Can Teach Us Unexpected Lessons. Sometimes I take for granted how lucky I am to have been born in a place where…
Two Wrongs that Definitely Don’t Make a Right
Some Words to Avoid in Family Discussions. When asked about the work I do, I typically reply by referring to the kinds of…
Connect with Family – Or DIE Trying
Striving for More of a “Family of Affinity”. It truly is a privilege to work with families as a resource as they face the…
Navigating the Sweet Spots of Life in FamBiz
Or, What We Can Learn from Goldilocks. When I was growing up I had a tendency to believe that if something was good, then more of…
Remaining Equidistant and Neutral in Work with Families
On the Nebulous Prospect of “The Family” as the Client. When I had my calling to work with enterprising families over a decade…
Skills, Knowledge and Attitude for Work with Families
Distinctions Between Knowing What and Knowing How . Writing about a niche subject like family business and wealth transition…
Re-FECC-tions on 10 Years of Judging (at SG-FECC)
A Unique Event on the Family Enterprise Calendar. After well over a decade in the family enterprise field, there are some events…
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