Conflict Resolution

Your family’s past affects your business today

Healthy family relationships are the key to healthy family businesses.

Strategies for squashing squabbles

Family-owned businesses have so many awesome upsides — superior value creation over time, a shared purpose and lots of time spent with those closest...

60 seconds on entitlement

When asked to describe “family business” in one word, a surprising number of respondents answer with the word “entitlement.” It certainly can be the...

Turn familial challenges into opportunities

 It's an honor to be part of a family business, especially a multi-generation one. However, when emotions and family dynamics bleed into operational objectives, it’s...

Resolving longstanding conflict is well worth the hard work

Longstanding family conflict can bring a family business to its knees. It saps energy and happiness and holds back the business from functioning optimally....