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The Choice to Stay Begins with the Option to Leave
A family shareholders’ meeting. A cousin in her forties, who has held shares for almost twenty years and has never worked in the business, waits
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When Silence Speaks: Are Family Business Conflicts a Threat or a Source of Strength?
In a family business, conflict is often perceived as a threat to the family’s very core. When siblings disagree, or when parents and children argue about the business, the stakes go far beyond strategy or finances. The deeper fear is that the relationship itself may crack. The possibility that a disagreement could damage the family creates real, often overwhelming anxiety. It can feel like there’s no safe way forward.
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Breaking the Silence: Leadership of Two Truths
Sometimes, the most dangerous moments in the life of a family business are actually the quiet ones. The moments where everyone is smiling around the holiday table, but beneath the surface, unspoken tension simmers. We tend to think that silence is a sign of harmony, but when it stems from the fear of raising explosive topics, it is not harmony, it is a ticking clock.
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Why It Took Me Three Years to Finish HBO’s Succession and What It Teaches Us About How Not to Run a Family Enterprise
I tried to watch the award-winning HBO series on numerous occasions, stopping repeatedly, not because it wasn’t brilliant, but because it was brutal. The cynicism, humiliation, and constant power games felt too extreme. For anyone working closely with multi-generational family enterprises, this world of perpetual chaos and zero-sum power felt not only far removed from our reality, but was also a painful mirror reflecting everything that causes a family enterprise to fail.
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Succession Plans in Asian Family Enterprises
Jeremy Cheng explains in an article published by Bloomberg magazine why the Lui family, an enterprising family in Hong Kong did a good thing in laying down a plan for succession before the patriarch’s death.
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Stewarding businesses into institutions
In light of the many crises that haunt the daily news cycle, there is one segment of the corporate landscape that seems to be weathering the storm better than most: family businesses.
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Doing good 2.0: How has family philanthropy changed?
Ashley Blanchard talks about how philanthropic families around the world experienced the pandemic and how philanthropy has changed.
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A partnership’s mid-life crisis
They were on the same wavelength when they teamed up to buy their first radio station 20 years ago. .
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Equal isn’t always fair
Parents want to be fair to all their children. When their offspring work together in the business, it isn’t always easy to figure out the best way to do it.
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