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Thriving or Trapped in the Family Business?

Klein, PsyD, is the author of "Trapped in the Family Business: A Practical Guide to Uncovering and Managing Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Michael Klein

Thought Leader Dennis Jaffe: What the Best Family Businesses Get Right

Dennis Jaffe is a thought leader on family businesses -- an organizational consultant and clinical psychologist, and one of the architects of the emerging field of family enterprise Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Family Firm Values Start at an Early Age

In her third interview with Familybusiness.org, Mitzi Perdue shares strategies from her book entitled, " How to Communicate Values to Children So They'll Love It ." Values, as she points out, help Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Trust But Verify: How Startups Can Build Healthy Strategic Alliances

However, managing outsourcing relationships is not always easy and sometimes they can do more harm than Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: John Friar , Kimberly Eddleston , Tucker Marion and David Deeds

How Quickly Should Entrepreneurs Pursue Opportunities? Insights from the Mining Industry

My study co-authored by Rene Bakker —published in the Academy of Management Journal in February 2017— Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Author: Dean Shepherd

A Family Firm Can Be Both an Innovator and a Great Place to Work

Your model for managing employees needs to evolve over time, and tough economic and competitive periods Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Emanuela Rondi , Ruth Überbacher , Leopold von Schlenk-Barnsdorf , Alfredo De Massis and Marcel Hülsbeck

Firm But Flexible Parents Raise the Best Family Business Leaders

interviewee, who described his parents as “strict but supportive,” said this translated to how he managed Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston , Kristen Shanine and Kristen Madison

The New Normal: Overcoming Post-Pandemic Challenges to Survival and Growth

At EIX and familybusiness.org many of our best-read articles in 2020 and 2021 gave advice on managing Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Daniel Forbes and Kimberly Eddleston

She Always Gives Her All to the Family Firm -- but He Follows the Leader

Family business managers and advisors must recognize that employees’ motivations and behaviors are different Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Kristen Madison

The Leadership Traits Shared by Successful Entrepreneurs

I actually have an employee who is my right hand person whose title is Manager of Special Projects. Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Michael Glauser and Dan Holland

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