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A Healthy Family Enterprise is a Balancing Act

By Professor Peter Vogel, Director of IMD Global Family Business Center  It is estimated that family-controlled businesses make up approximately two-thirds of the world’s businesses....
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Learning From Crises: 7 Steps to Multigenerational Sustainability Through the Storm

Partner Content by Markus Weishaupt I remember the first few years after the 2008 financial crisis, the hardships that both people and companies had to...
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Ten Critical Initiatives for Family Business Longevity

Editorial by George A Isaac Your family business is your best vehicle for generating income, preserving wealth and serving the needs of your stakeholders. Yet,...
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Building Generational Wealth that Lasts

Still reeling from the unprecedented disruption of COVID-19, sustainability is on the collective mind of the global family business community in a way that...
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Leveraging the Board in Times of Crisis

There is perhaps no situation that proves the worth of a board – particularly one with outside directors – more than a crisis with...
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Five Ways Businesses are Stepping Up to Help Their Communities

It would appear that the coronavirus outbreak has underscored a universal truth about human nature: in the most extreme circumstances, humanity's best and worst...
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Oscar Trimboli: Listening Between the Lines

Listening is often thought of as passive, but effective listening goes beyond hearing – it is a skill as important as speaking and a...
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Six Ways to Make Your Family Business Governance a Reality

Governance is hard to define and harder to enact. Even when family businesses know what they need, the implementation and maintenance of governance is...
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Family Business Health and Well-being

Authentic leadership going forward depends on whether or not next-generation family business members can prioritise their well-being. Altruistic work is not sustainable work; growing...
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Kongō Gumi and the Six Secrets of Longevity

Kongō Gumi, a Japanese construction company, was founded in 578 AD by a Korean immigrant named Shigemitsu Kongō who was skilled in the art...