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What to do When You Feel Trapped in the Family Business
Feeling obligated to join or stay in the family business, even if it’s not your passion or aligned with your career goals? Here’s what to do.
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Strategic Planning for Family Businesses: Using SWOT, PESTLE, and Ansoff
Develop a better strategic plan for your family business. Use these tools to uncover important factors that might otherwise be overlooked.
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The Family Business Priority Triad: a Strategy for Growth
There are 3 main priorities family business leaders can focus their strategy on: growth, control, and liquidity. Here is how the options play out.
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How to Set Boundaries Between Family and Business
When you combine family with business, boundaries tend to blur. Here are 5 tips for preventing work from taking over your home life (and vice versa)
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Resolving Family Business Arguments. How to Have Better Conversations When You Disagree.
When you combine business and family, even routine conversations can seem harder due to underlying feelings and family dynamics. How to have better conversations when you disagree.
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Famous Strategic Failures (and What We Can Learn From Them)
In this article, we examine the strategic failures of three famous companies and pull out some lessons we can learn from their mistakes.
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5 Keys to a Healthy Family Business
A healthy family business requires a balance between work and life. Family businesses can create a strong foundation for success and avoid common pitfalls by focusing on these five essential elements.
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Does Your Family Business Need a Board of Directors?
Does your family business have a board of directors? Does it need one? Here’s what you need to know about setting up a family business board.
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9 Keys to a Sustainable and Prosperous Family Business
Achieve sustainable prosperity for your family business by implementing these 9 key steps. Build a business that prospers for generations.
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6 Factors to Consider when Seeking Family Business Consulting Services
Smart family business leaders seek outside consultation when necessary. Here are 6 factors to consider when looking for business consulting services.
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How to Create a Family Business Culture Where People Thrive
In a tight labor market, your culture can be a competitive advantage and one of the most important factors in determining your success. Here are 3 strategies for creating a family business culture where people thrive.
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Exit Planning Q&A with Rob Ferguson
Key takeaways and transcript from Rob’s interview about family business succession planning on the Influential Entrepreneurs podcast.
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The Prosperity Plan
The process we use to help our clients overcome their challenges and create a prosperous business
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The first and most important decision you need to make if you want business growth & prosperity
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The three pillars that make prosperity inevitable and can sustain an infinite legacy
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How to escape the hamster wheel of "working to hard for too little" and get your business into the "Prosperity Zone"