Succession Planning is not a Project but a Process

In over 45 years of assisting family-owned businesses in passing the business from one generation to the next, the statistical data has not changed much. Only 30 percent survive when passing from the first generation to the second and only 12 percent survive to the...

Does your family business need an Organizational Chart?

For many family business owners the answer is “What do we need an Org Chart for? Everyone here knows who does what. That is just for big corporations like IBM. Besides, we don’t have time for that sort of thing…it’s a wasted effort” In our experience the number of...

The Economic Backbone of America

Since 2008 family businesses have borne the brunt of much of the financial difficulties, tax and regulatory burden that has emerged from our country’s experiment with socialism. From TARP to Qualitative Easing to Dodd-Frank to Fed Policy to the Affordable Care Act and...

Reconnecting

“Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.” — Deepak Chopra: is an authority in the field of mind-body healing