How can coaching and mentoring be leveraged to develop family leaders?
Sharon Duguid and Wendy Ulaszek discuss the benefits, techniques and challenges of coaching family businesses.
Governance Team Development
Reality Bites: How can simulations support family business continuity?
Chris Robichaud and Devin DeCiantis talk about how simulations can support continuity.
Educating family business owners
We conceptualize two interrelated approaches to education: a deductive or “outside-in” approach.
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.
The dilemma of the mature family council
Over the past three decades, many business families have formed a Council. The oldest Councils have started asking “What do we do now?”
Mentoring the next generation
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.
Independent directors in the middle
Whether they like it or not, outside directors on a family board often confront and must deal with succession issues.
Yin and Yang as Co-Presidents
The 50-50 sibling partnership suffers from a split personality but can generate synergies under certain conditions.
California Dreaming
How to survive an earthquake, life-threatening illness, an economic slump, and arguments with your kids.
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. .
