Families in Business Magazine column
 

Short articles about personal and relationship issues that arise for families in business together, with suggestions for key actions to promote family and business success.

• Dutiful Sons: How to Succeed as Heir to a Great Entrepreneur. • Best Practices of Multi-Generational Families.
• Lessons of the 19th century.. • The Pritzker Problem.
• The Effective Family Meeting. • Creating an Effective Management Team.
• Succession Begins the First Day of Work. • The Burdens of Wealth.
  • Family Conflict.
• It’s Good to Talk. • Resolving Family Feuds.
• Why Clear Boundaries Make All the Difference. • Sibling Rivalry & the Quest for an Easy Leadership Transition.
• Letting Go & Moving On. • The Iron Constitution.
• Disruptive In-law. • Saved by the Board.
• Building on Values. • Strategic Philanthropy.
• Leadership Development. • Knowledge Succession.

Family Business/Family Wealth Cases
 
• Aboitiz Family - Nurturing Talent Across Generations
• The Ly Brothers Entrepreneurs - From Vietnam to California.
• Dabur India Ltd.
• Reinventing a Family Dynasty. The Pitcairn Family.
• Linking Organizational Values to a Century of Company Success. How the Smuckers Steer their Family Company.
• We’re Jammin’. The Smucker Family.
• The Madigan Family: 1922-2012. A Case for Professional Learning.

Governance Articles
 
• United We Stand. Transition to Third Generation in Family Business.
• ‘We the People, to Form a More Perfect Union…’
• Financial Planning for the Family and the Business.
• When Succession Crosses Genders.
• Sustaining the Family Dynasty: Key Issues facing complex multi-generational business and investment owning families.

Wealth and Relationships Articles
 
• Acquirers and Inheritors Dilemma: Discovering Life Purpose in the Presence of Wealth.
• Immigrants and Natives to Wealth.
• Six Dimensions of Wealth: Leaving the fullest value of your wealth to your heirs.
• The Money Identity and Preferences Inventory: A Tool for Assessing a Client’s Relationship to Wealth.
• Money, Wealth and Identity. Coming to Terms with Being Wealthy.

Values Articles
 
• How Venture Boards influence the success or failure of technology companies.
• Can the Values-First Company Survive?
• Creating Spirit in the Workplace.
• How to Link Personal Values with Team Values.
 
 
  © 2007, Dennis Jaffe