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Building Structures for Your Enterprise
There are many forces at work within a family business. Strategic decisions, financial considerations, and operational demands all compete for attention. Yet beneath these visible activities lies a powerful, often invisible driver of how families work together: their values.
The Four-Fold Way
Indigenous populations around the world draw on the power of four archetypes to live in harmony and in balance with both their inner selves and with nature.
Building the Foundation for Family Governance
Sustaining a family business across generations requires more than choosing a new leader or transferring ownership from one generation to the next.
A Reflection on the Role of Elders in a System of Family Governance, by Jay Hughes
Some years ago when I was developing the ideas for my book on family governance, “Family Wealth, Keeping it in the Family”, I tried to establish rules that would parallel the three branches of most democratic governments, legislative, executive and judicial.
Collective Intelligence
It is a statement of the obvious that family-owned businesses are some of the most complex organizational systems that exist. Managing both families and businesses, wearing the three hats of ownership, family engagement and employment in a family venture can challenge the greatest minds of our times. Yet, often we do not create the conditions that would help us to develop our collective intelligence.
Evolving Roles in the Family Business
One of the opportunities that families in business have, that most other families do not have is a range of roles in which one can participate.
Transition of Leadership: Where the Rubber Meets the Road in Succession
Continuity of a family business refers to its ability to survive across generations. In general, succession is perceived complete when ownership and authority to make the ultimate decisions have been passed to the members of the next generation.
Bibliography: More on Love, Shared Values & Vision
To augment the article “Identifying Love in our Family Business”, we have created a list of resources.
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