Hey, the Expert Is Here! (Uh-Oh…)
Resisting the Cry for Help Can Be Difficult. Let’s face it, when people are happy to see you because you have some specialized…
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Contrasting Transition Timelines: 15 minutes or 10 Years
Based on a True Story. When you spend a lot of time in the wonderful world of family enterprises, you hear all sorts of stories…
Balancing Governance and Culture in Family Enterprise
Developing the Leadership to Find the Right Mix. Colleagues sometimes ask me what it’s like to write a weekly blog post…
Agreements Gathering Dust: Bad vs. Good
A Necessary Evil Worth Getting Right. Working with enterprising families, there’s a lot at stake, because you’re trying to…
Finding Better Labels for People in FamBiz
What You Call People DOES Matter. Like most areas we encounter in our lives, the field of Family Business has a lot of familiar…
My “Role / Goal / Control” Life Hack
. A Shortcut for “In the Moment” Challenges. Most of what I write about each week focuses on issues on the far end of the…
The “Changing People” Dilemma in Enterprising Families
Both Ways of Doing It Are Tough. It’s not often that I’ll write a blog on a brand new idea that just came to me, but this…
All FamBiz Are Different, And All the SAME
All FamBiz Are Different, And All the SAME Lots of Ways to Look at Enterprising Families One of the most interesting things I’ve…
The “Good/Fast/Cheap” Quandary in Family Enterprise
An Old One, But a Good One. Writing a weekly missive here gives me the chance to share a lot of different ideas that I’ve picked…
On Everyone’s Mind and Nobody’s Agenda
Too Many Important Subjects Don’t Get Discussed. Everyone is familiar with the old story about pulling a jacket out of a closet…
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