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How Family Business Leaders Can Encourage Both Devotion and Performance

Family businesses have unique strengths and unique problems because they blend two identities -- "family" and "business" -- whose priorities are often at odds. While the family identity nurtures Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Roland Kidwell and Kathryn Kloepfer

Advice for Non-Family Executives in Family Businesses

Ritch Sorenson, Professor of Family Business at the University of St Thomas in Minneapolis, once worked at a bank founded by his grandfather.  When it closed, he felt a personal loss that Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Ritch Sorenson

Why Does EOS/Traction Work So Well for Family Businesses?

simple tools that help companies get strong in these areas: Vision - Everyone on the leadership team Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Sara Stern

Real-Life Drama: Creating a TV Series Based on a Family Business

The Project To briefly describe the project, teams of students are required to pitch a television series Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

How to Keep Remote Workers Inspired and Engaged

The process of informal information exchange crosses departmental boundaries, with work groups and teams Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Jay Mulki

How Family Businesses Can Attract and Keep the Best People

also consider creating various types of physical workspaces to allow for both individual work and team Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Qizhen Cai and Kimberly Eddleston

The Hybrid Workplace is Here to Stay: 5 Ways to Make it Work

Clashing perspectives: companies and employees Global companies have long used teams that collaborated Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Claudia Binz Astrachan and Lars B. Sonderegger

What Family Businesses Should be Doing Now

such as (a) physically separating the workforce by using acrylic glass screens; (b) forming A, B, C teams Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

How to Grow Your Family Business

When there’s more than one family member on the management team dealing with growth, it’s imperative Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Kerry Hannon

How Family Firms Help Non-Family Employees Feel Like Family

Implementing any of these approaches helps family firms have a supportive team of non-family employees Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Peter Jaskiewicz , Josh Hsueh , Elizabeth Tetzlaff and Giovanna Campopiano