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Succession Planning – How To Avoid Failure in 10 Easy Steps

November 8, 2013 By HRB Family Business Consulting 1 Comment

One of the most critical points in succession planning, to aviod a Family Business Fail, is to ensure the founder entrepreneur know it’s their job to plan for an orderly succession.

  When the fall is all that’s Left, it matters a great deal. Family businesses fail, fall down. Bad Succession Planning? A PricewaterhouseCoopers survey listed 10 reasons why Family-Owned businesses fail. 1. Poor succession planning. 2. Lack of trusted advisers. 3. Family conflict 4. Different visions between generations. 5. Governance challenges. 6. Exclusion of family [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Succession Planning Tagged With: Current Leaders, family business, Leadership Succession, Planning Leadership, strategic planning, Successful Planning, Succession, Succession Plan, succession planning

Closely-Held Family Businesses Rise in Value

August 30, 2013 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

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The Wall Street Journal reported in June, Some of the world’s richest people derive their wealth from closely-held business. At $3 trillion, private businesses controlled by “ultra high net worth” families are valued at a fraction of the world’s roughly $55 trillion stock market capitalization at the end of 2012, according to data from Wealth-X [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Effective Families, Family Owned Business Tagged With: business plans, Closely Held, Closely Held Business, family business, family business consulting, family owned business, Governance & Boards, multi-generational success, Next Generation Development, strategic planning, Wealth

Build Focus Lists for Small Business Success

June 18, 2012 By HRB Family Business Consulting 1 Comment

Lists Are Key To Success

  Focus Lists, Suggestions and Rules   Lists help me keep focus. Focus helps me achieve success. Lists help me remember everything. Well, everything that I remember to put on my list! I use lists at the grocery store, to help me pack for trips, to stay on task as a writer, and to manage [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Small Business Consulting Tagged With: final list, focus help, focus list, list help, list list, lists, my list, personal life, sam ervin, short list, stepping stones, strategic planning, time management, using list

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

Consider Millennials In Your 5-Year Family Business’ Strategic Plans

December 20, 2011 By HRB Family Business Consulting 1 Comment

. The Pounding of T.S. Elliot , Technology and Generations Last week there was an article reviewing Technology in 2011, the writer spoke of Twitter, Blackberry, Zuckerberg’s Facebook finally commenting on T.S. Elliot’s The Waste Land. His point was the power of a Kindle or iPad to permit you to read and hear this classic [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Family Owned Business Tagged With: captions, demographics, dream, dreams, facebook, family business, generation y, generations, jim craig, millennials, plan, planning, skill, strategic planning, technology, technology report, viggo mortensen, world wide web

Strategic Imagination And Innovation – “For Every IPOD There’s Two Pairs of MC Hammer Pants”

November 30, 2011 By mco Leave a Comment

How can we overcome any negative effects that our biases play on our decision making? There are three keys that will unlock the doorway to get out of these traps. •Imagination •Creativity •Innovation

Strategic Imagination Recently I had a chance to catch up with a lifelong friend; he was just finishing a project halfway around the world for a very large firm. My buddy has always been a little “out there”; I remembered years ago when we were travelling together on business, he went to stretch his legs [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Innovation Tagged With: continuous improvement, imagination, imaginations, innovation, peter, planning, strategic, strategic decision, strategic planning

Customer Service – A Compass will help the Team find their way

March 18, 2011 By mco Leave a Comment

Having and executing a plan are key puzzle pieces linked to solid metrics and great communication. A Compass will help the Team find their way. In John Grissom’s The Client, attorney Reggie Love wears a compass around her neck. A recovering alcoholic and pill user, Love explains, “So I’ll never lose my way again.” Success [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Customer Service Tagged With: Customer Service, marketing, strategic planning

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