A good insight into some of the barriers facing family firms looking to successfully pass the business on to future generations.

Nobody...

In our work with clients, whether they are business people, athletes or family members, one of the measures that we look at is 'what is...

A great insight from the USA with Wayne Rivers exploring the shifting pattern for family firms to employ non-family members in key roles.

Great to see an article that clearly demonstrates that whilst there are obvious links between the two, there are significant difference...

Family businesses are important in terms of the role they play in the global economy.  But why are they successful and what makes them...

As if succession is not a difficult enough topic in its own right, there is the further complication around the role of in-laws. ...

Thanksgiving in the US is a big deal and brings together families and that alone can be sufficient to trigger some difficult...

Talk to most family business owners about their business and they exude passion, drive and determination but it can come at a price. 

When...

As they continue to grow through unrelated diversification and international expansion, many family firms in Korea, Taiwan and China are...

When considering financial wellbeing, many people will think of debt, savings and investments, tax efficiency and maybe pensions.

However,...

Life after the family business is something that needs to be considered as early as possible and plans put in place, not just for the...

With 60-80% of all GDP in the region being generated by family businesses it is great to see that firms in the Middle East and North...

A key message for any family business can be taken from this piece examining the need for the board to be given a voice in the succession...

Family food businesses in Singapore that have successfully transitioned the generations have identified a number of key reasons for this...

The farming community needs to do a lot more to address the challenges around succession to ensure that farms are successfully passed on...

It is getting to the point where not a day goes by without succession making the headlines somewhere around the world.  This simply goes...

Does very family business need a code of conduct to manage conflict?  

In the context of Australian family firms who are not embracing the...

Yet another headline focusing on the challenges faced by family firms when it comes to succession.  

Despite the constant headlines and...

Every time they raise investment, founders are trading off between dilution and the amount and value of the funding round. The oft used...

Not many workers can match the length of service of the Queen or the Duke of Edinburgh but since the abolition of the default retirement...

Philanthropy means etymologically, the love of humanity, in the sense of caring, nourishing, developing, and enhancing what it means to...