On Starting Fresh or Starting Over
A New Year and a Clean Sheet of Paper. It’s early January, which has many people looking ahead with a fresh perspective, and…
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Articles by Steve Legler on family business, family governance, succession, family wealth and the relationships that hold it all together.
A “Renovation Project” for your Family
How Family Governance Is Like a Home Reno. Each week here I love to try to find new and useful (and entertaining) ways to talk…
Replenishing Your Family’s ATM
Or Refreshing Your Views on What It Is. As yet another year is about to disappear into the past and we look out ahead at a fresh…
Role of the Board of Advisors in Family Businesses
December 20, 2025 In this episode of Family Firm In Focus, we sit down with Steve Legler, MBA, FEA, CPCC, a globally recognised…
Communicating Clearly – Verbs Matter
Common Understanding Depends on Clarity . This week’s post may turn into a bit of a rant about the words that I’ve heard some…
The Best of 2025 (A Retrospective)
Let’s Talk Family Enterprise Podcast Episode #74 Let’s Talk Family Enterprise Podcast Episode #74 Hosts: Aileen Miziolek & Steve…
When a Family Trip Becomes an ExpeditionWhen a Family Trip Becomes an Expedition
It’s Better to Prepare for the Long Haul. This week we’re going back to the world of metaphors, which is familiar territory for…
How Much Wealth Is Enough? (Various Versions)
A Question with Many Different Answers. When you tell people you work with successful families who are planning to transition…
When Grand-Dad “Isn’t There, Yet”
Each Generation Has Its Own Timeline. Working with multiple generations of a family is always challenging for plenty of reasons…
Carve More Than the Turkey – Carve Out Family Time
A Seasonally Inspired Post. Writing a weekly post on the challenges of generational transitions for families has seen me compose…
What Does This Family Need, Now?
The Question That’s Always There. Each week here I discuss topics relevant to families who will be undergoing some sort of…
Where Everybody Knows your Name, and Job
Just Being with Others Who Get You. There are certain times and places where everything is just a little bit less of a hassle…
On Learning by Doing and Advising Others
If You Want to Learn Something, Teach It to Others. As I sit down to write this week’s post, I’m fresh off a couple of great…
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