LGA Lighthouse: “Why a Podcast?”
Ivan Lansberg and Devin DeCiantis discuss LGA’s decision to launch a podcast.
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Succession Planning
Resilience in Family Enterprises
Studying the response of family enterprise systems to chronic market dysfunction and elevated risk can provide useful insights into organizational resilience.
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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.
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The tests of a prince
Future leaders, particularly in family businesses, must jump through four kinds of hoops to earn the respect—and then the support—of stakeholders.
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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.
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Narcissism: The hidden cost of success
The grand qualities of a founder can lead to rigidity in the business and undermine competence in successors.
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Beware developmental illiteracy
Families pay a high price for not understanding that individuals grapple with different issues at different ages.
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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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Succession Journeys
With statistics indicating that an unprecedented number of family businesses will be changing hands in the next decade.
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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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