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Is the family business still right for me?
You’ve reached mid-life. Doubts arise about your commitment to the business. Five key questions will help you clarify your career goals.
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Every LGA article represents the authentic insights, strategies, and first-hand experience of our global advisory team. Client scenarios are drawn from actual advisory engagements and anonymized to protect confidentiality. Furthermore, each article undergoes rigorous internal peer review to capture our collective wisdom and deliver actionable strategies for enterprising families committed to multigenerational success.
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Generation to Generation
A landmark book laying out the dominant developmental framework for understanding family enterprise continuity.
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Ready, fire, aim over the internet
E-mail has proved to be an appealing medium in family businesses, but some types of messages can backfire.
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How the world is/isn’t changing
Three Obvious Assumptions about family businesses in the new millennium that are probably not true.
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The making of a banking star
As head of her family’s bank in Taos, New Mexico, Rebeca Romero “makes things happen” in the Hispanic community.
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The dreams that drive business success
Leadership is about aligning people’s aspirations. It’s a vital task for successors who lack a controlling share.
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Why families don’t empower leaders
Reluctance to grant authority to siblings and cousins can paralyze the best-designed governance structures.
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The Succession Conspiracy
The lack of succession planning has been identified as one of the most important reasons why many first-generation family firms do not survive their founders.
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A granddaughter’s noble quest
She promised her grandfather on his deathbed to keep his publishing company in family hands.
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