Pruning the FamBiz Ownership Tree
Family businesses come to life in different ways, but their ownership structure usually starts out pretty simple. With the coming…
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Articles by Steve Legler on family business, family governance, succession, family wealth and the relationships that hold it all together.
Family Governance, Aaaah!
It’s hard to get a handle on “governance” sometimes, and depending on the context, its meaning and connotations can vary…
Work with Me, Walk with Me
Work with Me, Walk with Me This week’s blog inspiration comes from a training program I attended. Noting it in my “future blog…
Lessons from a Drowned Phone
Happy New Year? The first week of a New Year seems destined to bring up a challenge for me. Last January I was involved in a car…
5 Things you Need to Know: Sibling Rivalry
Sibling Rivalry is a subject that has been around forever, yet despite that, it has somehow not been one that I have tackled in…
The KEY Question for 2017
So here we are again at the time of year when the old calendar comes off the wall and the new one goes up. Didn’t we just go…
Thinking Outside the Boxing Day Special
I have been writing and posting my blog here each and every week for over four years now. It is a source of pride for me to be…
Christmas Presence > Christmas Presents
I’m a big fan of clever wording, so as the holidays approached and I got the idea of “presence” for a blog post, I could not help…
Helping Uncoordinated Families
I am not sure what it is about my brain, but it will often catch a word in one context, completely forget about it for weeks, and…
No, YOU Don’t Understand!
No, YOU Don’t Understand! This week I attended a presentation at a local University’s Family Business Center. The guest speaker…
5 Things you Need to Know: Family Inheritance
Family Inheritance While few people actually relish thinking about the details of the inheritance they will leave their family…
It’s All about Getting Started
Most of us usually have a pretty good idea of “what to do” in situations, and we think about our motivations to clarify the “why”…
Harnessing the NextGen in the FamBiz
While attending the annual conference of the Family Firm Institute in Miami, one of of the breakout sessions contained a kind of…
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