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Podcast: Blair Trippe – How Can You Best Manage Conflict in Your Family?
WEALTH OF WISDOM PODCAST – EPISODE 11 Conflict is a normal part of family life. But it can be difficult to talk about and to manage, especially when significant wealth or a family business is involved. Continuity Managing Partner Blair Trippe’s...
read morePodcast: Doug Baumoel – Should You Stay Together as a Family or Go Your Separate Ways?
WEALTH OF WISDOM PODCAST – EPISODE 36 When should a family call it quits and go their separate ways? How can a family even think about this painful question? In this podcast, Keith Whitaker speaks with Continuity Founding Partner Doug Baumoel about these...
read moreThe Rewards and Challenges of Working for a Family Business
Doug Baumoel's Story Based on an interview and article with Cornell University’s Smith Family Business Initiative Working for your family’s business can be a very rewarding experience, especially if it functions well. When it doesn’t, the experience can be extremely...
read moreManaging Identity-based Conflict: Beyond Better Communication for Family Business
Survival of the Self: Understanding identity-based conflict and Family Business is essential. Conflicts emerge when one person’s values or goals clash with another’s. (Updated 4/27/19)
read moreWhy Hire a Family Business Consultant: What They Really Do
Are you trying to figure out if your family-owned business needs a family business consultant? Family business consultants are uniquely able to help clients navigate through the complex issues that arise when family dynamics combine with management, ownership, and...
read moreFive Ways to Improve Family Business Communication
We all know communication has a powerful impact on both personal and business relationships. That’s one reason why many people identify poor communication as what needs to be fixed for the family business and relationships to thrive. The complex family business system...
read moreUnderstanding Conflict in Families of Wealth
By Blair Trippe Working Through Differences Everyone fights over what matters to them. When unrelated people fight, they can choose to walk away and end relationships. When family members fight, it’s not that easy. It’s more difficult to cut ties, since family...
read moreShould We Stay Together as a Family Enterprise or Separate?
How to Figure Out if Sharing Assets Still Makes Sense By Doug Baumoel Defining Family In the back of your mind you may be asking this question: Should we continue managing our wealth, business, or philanthropy together at this point, or should we go our separate ways?...
read moreThe Hidden Perils—and Potential— of Shared Family-Owned Real Estate
Managing Unique Challenges for Future Success Real estate can be the driver of a wonderful family business, but it can also be a slow-motion train wreck for families that neglect to manage their shared enterprise and their relationships well. Many enterprising...
read moreNurturing the Next Generation in Family Business
Identify and Develop a Successful Entrepreneur What makes a leader entrepreneurial? Many family business leaders, especially founders of family business, are eager to find an equally entrepreneurial leader in their family to become their successor. The paradox is that...
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