Demographics and Family Governance: The Vanishing Middle
Many family businesses have a problem with recruitment into governance roles, and the family labor pool is a critical issue.
Many family businesses have a problem with recruitment into governance roles, and the family labor pool is a critical issue.

Over the past three decades, many business families have formed a Council. The oldest Councils have started asking “What do we do now?”

What have we learned about efficient (and less anxiety-raising) ways to apply the family’s human capital over time?

A very small part of the academic research on governance has taken into account family ownership and the special nature of family firm governance.

Future leaders, particularly in family businesses, must jump through four kinds of hoops to earn the respect—and then the support—of stakeholders.

The next generation of mentors – parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents, senior business leaders and advisors – play an important role in guiding the next generation of family members.

As head of her family’s bank in Taos, New Mexico, Rebeca Romero “makes things happen” in the Hispanic community.

What keeps Korczak Ziolkowski’s grown children on the mountain where he began his monumental work 50 years ago.
