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Family Business and Chaos Theory

September 2, 2014 By HRB Family Business Consulting 1 Comment

Chaos Theory ... if we look closely enough at the randomness around us that patterns will start to emerge

  Family Business and Chaos Theory. Our Team continued to work at the family’s manufacturing plant. Improvement is difficult without stability. Do you know anything about the chaos theory? It has to do with fractal mathematics. A fractal is a natural phenomenon or a mathematical set that exhibits a repeating pattern that displays at every [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Family Owned Business, Process Management Tagged With: business consulting, Chaos Theory, Eliyahu M. Goldratt, family business, Patterns, process management, Process Stability, Process Variation, The Goal

Top Ideas for Coaching the Owner

July 7, 2014 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

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  Family Business, privately held firms face many challenges. Coaching the Owner is often needed to keep focus, to understand the enemy named average and the virus called status quo. “I have difficulty sometimes talking to people who don’t race sailboats. When I was a teenager, I crewed Larchmont to Nassau on a 58-foot sloop [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Business Coaching Tagged With: Business Coach, business consulting, Business Owners, coaching, Coaching the Owner, Consulting Coaching, executive coaching, family business, Planning Ahead

Are Talent Management or Organizational Development Family Business issues?

June 23, 2014 By HRB Family Business Consulting 1 Comment

Talent management is an important piece of organizational development. OD is a deliberately planned, organization-wide effort to increase effectiveness and/or efficiency and/or to enable the team to achieve its strategic goals.

  Talent Management is planning ahead. Sometimes Family Businesses don’t do enough Talent Management. Sometimes Family Businesses don’t recognize the value of Deming. When studying organizations and their control systems, it may be easy to load the structure into a PDCA-queue. PDCA equals Plan – Do – Check – Act. The company motto, vision statement, [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Organizational Development, Talent Management Tagged With: business consulting, family business, Pdca, plan, Talent Management

Family Business, Workers and Organizational Relationships

June 3, 2014 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

Family Business, Workers and Organizational Relationships

  How are Family Business employees similar or different than the working population as a whole? According to a recent Gallup survey of 5.4 million working adults, 52% of employees say they are not engaged in their work. They limp to work, toiling without passion. That’s half the workforce! Another 18% describe themselves as “actively [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Family Owned Business Tagged With: business consulting, family business, Organizational Relationships

Long-term Unemployment And A Culture of Candor

May 30, 2014 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

The crisis of long-term unemployment has faded from the headlines, but it remains one of the most important — and worrisome — issues in the U.S.’s long, slow emergence from the Great Recession.

Business Development and a Culture of Candor Family Businesses employee 62% of the US workforce; according to American Management Services, Inc. Family business face many challenges, the employment, treatment of Family members and in many cases the employment, retention, treatment of non-family members. The combinations of these two groups are a unique challenge to Family [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Family Owned Business Tagged With: business consulting, Unemployment

No Wrong Door, Welcome to the Puzzle House

May 27, 2014 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

To give, and not to count the cost to fight, and not to heed the wounds, to toil, and not to seek for rest, to labor, and not to ask for any reward, save that of knowing that we do thy will Family businesses are a key to the resilience of the American economy. Family [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Family Owned Business Tagged With: American Economy, business consulting, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneur Businesses, family business, small business consulting

Entrepreneur or Business Owner?

May 14, 2014 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

The entrepreneur starts out of love, passion, inspiration, maybe some spark of genius and many, many times frustration.

Filed Under: Entrepreneur, Small Business Consulting Tagged With: business, business consulting, Consulting Small Business, Entrepreneur, family owned business, Greater Fool Theory, small business

This Week in Family Business

March 21, 2014 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

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“WE RISE FROM ASHES, GOOD WE FAIL DO, WE RISE FROM ASHES. TIME CREATE OURSELVES NEW.” Many family businesses rise from ashes. Multi-generational family businesses recreate themselves. People work harder when their work seems meaningful. It’s our job in Family Businesses to help the team understand – why their work is meaningful, important and a [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Family Owned Business Tagged With: Ash Wednesday, business, business consulting, family business, family business consulting

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