Category: Business Strategy
What Enterprising Families & Their Advisors Need to Know About Family Business
Essex County Estate Planning Council Presents Guest Speaker, Doug Baumoel, MBA, Founder, Continuity Family Business Consulting Doug Baumoel brings extensive experience in family business operations and executive management to his work with Continuity clients. He served as a second-generation leader of his own family’s business, as chief executive in non-family enterprises, and in management [...]
NEW: Six-System Model
Six-System Model for Family BusinessDoug shared his Six-System Model for Family Business at his presentation to the Wharton Club of Boston. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend [...]
Family Enterprises – What Wharton Didn’t Teach
Doug gave a presentation on March 30 to the Wharton Club of Boston on Family Enterprises. He provided an overview of the latest thinking in family business systems as well as tales from the trenches of family business conflict and practical ideas of how to succeed in a family business. In addition, issues of shared [...]
Young Entrepreneur Alliance Fundraising Dinner
On October 25th, Doug attended an interesting fundraising dinner for YEAworks.org. YEAworks stands for Young Entrepreneurs Alliance–a great organization dedicated to helping highschool students from disadvantaged areas, obtain business skill through real world settings. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers [...]
Mediation in Family Businesses: Why it May Not be a Panacea After All
By Blair Trippe As an experienced mediator, I believe that mediation should always be considered to remedy disputes, especially when families are involved as it is less likely to destroy important relationships than litigation or continued animosity. In mediation, all parties have a voice at the table. In addition, each individual is respected as the [...]
Managing Conflict in a Family Business: An Introduction
By Douglas Baumoel Why is family business conflict so extreme, so intractable, and so difficult to manage? There are a wide range of conflict management tools, techniques and resources available, but these must be carefully chosen and applied to be effective. Often, conventional dispute resolution techniques, which seem logical and correct, have unfortunate outcomes when [...]
Boston Business Journal
Doug Baumoel was quoted as a leading professional in the July 9th edition of the Boston Business Journal in an article on how family businesses are dealing with the recession. Click on the link below to check out the article! http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2010/07/12/story2.html?t=printable Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share on [...]
