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How the Next Generation Can Earn Legitimacy, Respect and Loyalty

Handing off the leadership of a family business is never easy, especially when the heir is viewed as entitled to the crown, rather than deserving of it. This interview with Robert Buday, author of Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Interviewee: Robert Buday

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

Interviewee: Mitzi Perdue

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

Imagine this not so uncommon family business situation. In a f ourth-generation family business, the transition between the previous generations always went from the father to son in the business: Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Sara Stern

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

Interviewee: Dennis Jaffe

10 Tips for a Blog that Builds Readership and Business

At dinner recently, a friend (Dave’s) began to kvetch about her adulting son. He had lived with her and her husband for a year after college. Finally, the grumpy, underemployed ingrate had moved Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: David Goetz and Melissa Parks

Diversify Your Family's Risks by Returning to Its Entrepreneurial Roots

Family enterprises are the backbone of the world’s economy and critically important to the economic growth and development of every nation. On average, they outperform publicly owned non-family Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: David Deeds

Strategies for Keeping Your Family Connected

  In her second interview with Familybusiness.org, Mitzi Perdue shares strategies from her book entitled How to Keep Your Family Connected. This workbook, which complements her book How to Make Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Interviewee: Mitzi Perdue

Sinking ship? How one family firm sailed through several crises

  By Tanja Leppäaho, Paavo Ritala and Mat Hughes In our personal lives, sometimes it takes a crisis – an illness, divorce, job loss or another challenge – to get us to change long-held Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Author: Mat Hughes

Fostering Diversity and Inclusion Can Be Good for Business

Diversity and inclusion programs are being embraced by firms of all sizes everywhere. In this interview, family business Editor Kim Eddleston talks with Professor Michelle Duguid, who runs the Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Interviewee: Michelle Duguid

For New Research Insights, Study One Family in Depth

  EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is adapted from the authors’ contributions to a forthcoming book,The Field Guide to Family Business Research, edited by Keith Brigham and G. Tyge Payne. Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Lori Tribble Trudell , Theodore L. Waldron and James C Wetherbe