Practice Insight
Practice insights are articles submitted by practitioners, such as entrepreneurs, consultants, managers, and venture investors. These articles undergo editorial review but are not peer reviewed.
Different ways of thinking shape how families make decisions, resolve tensions, and pass leadership across generations. Every family business has its own way of seeing the world. Some center around a Read More...
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Authors: Tom Rüsen and Monika Nadler
Sometimes the family grows much faster than the business, especially in saturated markets. This has deep implications for how we manage family and business expectations. When we talk to Read More...
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Authors: Joseph Astrachan and George Manners
You can support your business through economic uncertainty and maintain unity and commitment. Multigenerational enterprising families are not easily shaken. Over decades and sometimes Read More...
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Authors: Joseph Astrachan and Claudia Binz Astrachan
Family firms can help the next generation move forward by understanding and supporting the emotional aspects of the exit for the current leader. Business advisors widely agree that the biggest Read More...
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Author: Michael Klein
Hope, Efficacy, Resilience and Optimism can make us better people and better leaders. Here's how to cultivate it within ourselves. All leaders and advisors struggle with organizational Read More...
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Author: Doug Gray, PhD
Baby Boomers are set to hand down trillions of dollars to younger generations. Family firms must consider how to transfer their ownership shares, and how much goes to whom. Around the world, an aging Read More...
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Authors: Martin Kemp and Susan Lanz
Your "owners' strategy" should consider that in the future, the family firm will likely have many more owners. Take a broader focus when you develop it. In the US, most family business advisory firms Read More...
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Authors: Claudia Binz Astrachan and Tom Rüsen
Like many family business leaders, John Dutton struggles to uphold longstanding traditions while external competitive pressures mount and next-gens clamor for change. "Yellowstone" is an American Read More...
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Authors: Robin Burns and Ana Gonzalez
On an ideal board, directors with different levels of experience, backgrounds, and interests form a cohesive team that pulls in the same direction, and that achieves more together than "the sum of Read More...
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Authors: Lars B. Sonderegger and Claudia Binz Astrachan
Family businesses should consider a social media policy as a relatively “low-hanging fruit” to introduce the next generation to governance work. Does your business family have a social media Read More...
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Authors: Claudia Binz Astrachan , Tom Rüsen and Rebecca DeYarman