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How To Get Predictable Results in Your Family Business in an Unpredictable World

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Charting Your Course versus Any Wind Will Do

One of the biggest barriers to family business growth is the lack of a written strategic plan. Why written? Because research shows when you write down your goals, you are 42% more likely to achieve the desired results. Who doesn’t want those odds on their side?

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BLOG | FAMILY DYNAMICS / GOVERNANCE

Family Business Consultants: The Rising Tide That Lifts All Boats

Family business leaders face tremendous stress as they deal with all the challenges of business, and also the inherent intertwining of business, family, and ownership. It can get messy. Family dynamics bubble over with varied perspectives, generational differences, and tenuous relationships. It’s hard to be united when there seems to be a steady flow of drama, conflict, and disharmony.

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BLOG | STRATEGY

Where’s your road map for 2023?

Do you have your plan for first quarter 2023? Is it written down for the team to see, understand and act upon? Or is it still tucked away in your head, and shared as needed?

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The Most Limiting Word

Words matter. Because we become what we think about. And words are an outcome of our thoughts, consciously or subconsciously...

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Inconvenience vs Problem – Learn the Difference

Life is full of inconveniences. Life can be full of problems, too. There is a difference. A striking difference...

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Finding Happiness. Stop Looking Out There.

These last two years of the pandemic have not been easy on the human psyche. For many, our physical health...

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Life mimics business. Business mimics life.

There seems to be a false notion floating around – and we all buy into – that somehow we're going to get everything in order tomorrow...

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The Game of Risk – Tolerance vs Time

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Fair does not ‘equal’ equal

This is one of the biggest problems in family business governance, where parents...

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BLOG | FAMILY DYNAMICS / GOVERNANCE

The Cousin Federation

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Who Should Bale the Hay?

Baling hay. It’s important & urgent work on a farm. It’s also a great business metaphor related to THE NUMBER ONE barrier to growth...

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