Succession planning is a critical process for family businesses to ensure a smooth transition of leadership from one generation to the next....
Succession Planning: Strategies for a Smooth Transition in Family Businesses
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Earning Trust and Taking the Reins: Navigating Succession in Family Businesses
Navigating succession in a family business is a complex and delicate process, typically fraught with challenges and tensions. For rising generations...
5 Things Next Gens Wish they Heard from their Parents
In our work with Next Gens we have learned they care deeply about their relationship with their parents. It’s one of the most common things they...
Caring for One Another in a Divided World
Today’s world is a divided one, ruled by boundaries, opinions, experiences, and ideologies. This is nothing new, really, since the first caveman to...
What is the most important strength of Family Business leaders?
One of my recent projects answers that question. We (Kent Rhodes, Ed.D) and I recently developed and validated a 360 assessment process for next...
Only In Theaters Q&A Watch Party – Opening a dialogue within the family business
On October 4th, NxtGen Nexus hosted its global Only In Theaters Global Watch Party and Q&A which included Conway Center for Family Business,...
Is the pursuit of longevity by family businesses a flawed goal? Maybe?
Is the pursuit of longevity by family businesses a flawed goal? Almost every practitioner would strongly answer ‘no!” However, for this week’s...
WLife Study: Women Leaders in Family Enterprises Survey
Women in family enterprises still have a long way to go to catch up with the positions, responsibilities, leadership and control of...
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Dassler brothers – One Family, One Feud, Two Global Shoe Brands
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Sneaky Pete – a sly Family Business Crime Drama
If Sneaky Pete sneaked past your streaming options, think again. While the themes of fraud, identity theft, violence, death, and moral compromise are similar to other family business crime dramas, they’re balanced with humor, charm, and fun. Sneaky Pete is the...
When Success Becomes a Cage: The Emotional Burnout of Wealth Maintenance
Success stories often end with the achievement itself, the company sold, the IPO celebrated, the estate secured. But what happens after the story everyone applauds? For many ultra-high-net-worth individuals, that’s when a new, quieter struggle begins, one that doesn’t...
I Sold My Family’s Security Business. Here’s What Nobody Told Me.
My first job at our family's security company was janitor. I was fourteen. I swept floors, tested product, and packed boxes in the warehouse for shipments. Not because my parents wanted to teach me a lesson about humility (although they did). But because that was the...
