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  • Family meetings: a place for dialogue
    Family meetings provide an intentional opportunity away from work and other commitments for the business-owning family to have important conversations.

  • Code of conduct: an integral part of a family business toolkit
    There are many aspects of transitioning a family business from one generation to the next: choosing a successor, establishing a timeline, preparing the next leader, transferring responsibilities and “passing the baton” in a thoughtful, purposeful manner.

  • Using wisdom to build strategy in your family business
    Wisdom is using the energy of Hall’s balance-in-tension well. Each family or business structure is a set of relationships and as such is a wellspring of opportunities for creativity and innovation.

  • Values & vision in a time of war
    These days, two distinct visions around a set of values are clashing in Eastern Europe. Like every crisis, that puts so many things up in the air. We’ve barely caught our breath from COVID-19 and now this!

  • The thickness of blood in family business (3 of 3)
    Part 3: “The dinner party changed everything.” Things can turn into other things. People can become family. And, when those miracles happen, the good that flows feel boundless.

  • The thickness of blood in family business (2 of 3)
    Part 2: “Doing business at the wedding.” In family business we often stand at crossroads. We ask, “Who will be our new CEO?” Or, “How shall we grow our business?”

  • The thickness of blood in family business (1 of 3)
    Part 1: “Everyone gets it but the CEO.” In family business we often stand at crossroads. In these moments we seek guidance which, broadly speaking, comes from realms of the spiritual and of the empirical. Here, we focus on the spiritual.

  • The role of the board chair
    Imagine you are an owner of a company and you set up a board of directors to help govern and guide the business. Do you take the role of board chair or do you identify someone else to take that role?

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