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Crumbling Kaleidoscope

December 14, 2016 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

As leaders and owners we must operate with our eyes wide open, aware of our biases and guarded against them painting our own virtual reality. A local Family Business leader complained of Kaleidoscope like vision from time to time. “A kaleidoscope is an optical instrument, typically a cylinder with mirrors containing loose, colored objects such [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Business Planning, Family Owned Business

Focus on the Plan

June 28, 2016 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

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Family Business facts from Forbes: FACT: Family businesses generate over 50% of the US Gross National Product (GNP) FACT: Less than one-third of family businesses survive the transition from first to second generation ownership. Another 50% don’t survive the transition from second to third generation. From Berkshire Hathaway and Wal-Mart to small stores everyone, about [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Business Planning, Family Owned Business

The Current Generation Needs to Lead Family Business

March 16, 2014 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

The leading generation needs to lead, to implement and compel compliance with the rules.

Every generation blames the one before and all of their frustrations. The Gettysburg address has 286 words, the Ten Commandments have 179 words, last week’s Internal Revenue Bulletin to explain one part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was 270 pages and over 100,000 words. Family Business is faced with many issues, the [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Business Planning, Family Owned Business, Governance Practices Tagged With: Asian Family Business, Business Leadership, family business, Family Firm, The Family Business

Great Companies, Family Businesses, Don’t Start With A Plan! Really?

May 29, 2012 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

  Planning, Passion and Purpose in Great Companies Many Colleges and Universities have a center for small business, some have programs for family businesses and a few even offer degrees in Family Business Management. Many if not all offer classes on business plans, strategic plans, tactical plans, short term plan, 5 year plan and some [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Business Planning Tagged With: business, business plan, business plans, civil war, entrepreneurship, family business, management, marketing, memorial day, passion, planning, purpose, small business consulting, spreadsheet, strategic business plans, strategic planning, tactical planning

Continuous Improvement Is An Evolution

January 30, 2012 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

. Continuous Improvement is most successful through incremental, continual steps rather than giant leaps; it’s an evolution. Louis L’Amour has been called American’s storyteller. Louis L’Amour is to westerns what Stephen King is to horror and Danielle Steel is to romance novels. One of the most prolific and popular authors in the world, L’Amour began [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Business Planning, Change Management, Continuous Improvement Tagged With: actions, attitudes, business culture, business evolution, continual improvement, continuous improvement, continuous improvement process, family business consulting, human psychology, louis l'amour, management, processes, swot analysis

“Seeing around corners”

October 24, 2011 By mco Leave a Comment

Recently I read a white paper, “Machiavelli’s The Prince Meets Sun Tzu” that made me consider statesmanship and negotiation rather than war. Sun Tzu said, every battle is won or lost before it’s every fought. Battles are won or lost in the preparation. Seeing around corners is all about preparation. Preparation requires skill, skills we [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Business Planning, Continuous Improvement Tagged With: continuous improvement, leadership style, organizational culture, planning

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