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What are You Doing to Win Your Father’s Respect?

Leadership

What Are You Doing to Win Respect as the Business Heir Apparent? If you are the heir apparent in the family business, then you can count on the fact that every eye in the business is placed squarely upon you. You are being measured every day. The weight of that measurement, in many ways, is […]

How Does Transparency Keep Your Family Business Alive?

Management

Family businesses can use transparency to make their business successful! As happens so many times, many of us start in business with a partner or partners—usually consisting of trusted friends or family members. We do that for good reasons—we often need the financial resources and capital that one or more people can bring to the […]

Do You have a Saboteur in Your Small Family Business?

Leadership, Management

Implementing real change in any business with employees is challenging. The obvious fact, however, is that every company in the world must improve daily to fend off lurking competitors. One of the huge factors that stops improvement and change is what I call employee sabotage. Even worse, is family member employee sabotage. Nearly always, that […]

Family Business Owners are the Bravest Heros I know!

Leadership

Families running businesses are some of the most heroic and brave people I know. In so many cases, these brave-hearted souls courageously risk everything to work in tough industries where the line between success and failure is ultra thin! Owners of these types of small businesses are often asked to sign personally on bank notes […]