How to optimize your leadership team
Family enterprises face unique challenges in unleashing the collective potential of their top managers. Here’s how to cut through role confusion and build a high-performance team. This post is only...
View ArticleKeeping up with the Gs: A family office succession case study
Performance matters, particularly with investments. And, in the case of one of our clients, their family office showed exceptional performance. But despite their consistently positive returns, this...
View ArticleHow to optimize your leadership team
Everyone has had some memorable, likely unpleasant, experience of a “team building” effort gone awry. Maybe you had to create a collage of the team as you see it, participate in trust falls and...
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Change is good
By Debbie Bing , Eliza Orleans Cultivating entrepreneurship and continuity in the family enterprise I n 1916, Italian immigrants open a bakery, which grows into a thriving, wholesale business through...
View ArticleThe great resignation
You’ve likely read by now about the 33 million or so Americans who have quit their jobs since last spring in a phenomenon commonly called the “Great Resignation.” A research study by the Predictive...
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Build a family ‘social contract’ that will strengthen succession
Walking into Newbury Corp.’s headquarters for the first time, we were taken aback by the three-story-high painting of the founder that dominated the entry atrium. We had been invited by the current...
View ArticleHow to face philanthropy’s hardest question
For as long as anyone could remember, philanthropy was a way of life for the Jackson family (a pseudonym; the family’s case is a composite based on several client families). Through their family...
View ArticleHow to manage behind-the-scenes power players
One Monday afternoon, Henry Pullman found himself embroiled in a heated argument with his brother George, co-chair of the board of their family business, about compensation for their non-family CEO....
View ArticleThe power of negotiating in a family-owned business
“I keep thinking I should be ready to hand the business over to my son, but I’m worried he might not have what it takes to run the company. I really don’t think it’s just me hanging on.” These were the...
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