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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Strategic Alignment
Meeting the future with confidence
A group of Family Business magazine’s distinguished contributing editors offer their best advice on how to get your family company in shape.
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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 new frontier in asset protection
You don’t have to go to Belize or the Channel Islands to protect assets from creditors, say proponents of the new Alaskan trusts.
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One way to see if the future works
Moving to a new form of leadership in the next generation? You can map your way by visiting other families who are already there.
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The pursuit of self-interest undermines trust
Why do people in a family business often risk destroying their bonds.
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Passing on the dream
What keeps Korczak Ziolkowski’s grown children on the mountain where he began his monumental work 50 years ago.
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Yin and Yang as Co-Presidents
The 50-50 sibling partnership suffers from a split personality but can generate synergies under certain conditions.
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When the generational planets are misaligned
The psychological needs of parents in their 40s and of successors-to-be in their 20s are often on a collision course.
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California Dreaming
How to survive an earthquake, life-threatening illness, an economic slump, and arguments with your kids.
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