Communication...
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Developing and Improving Internal Communication
One of the most common reasons why family businesses fail is poor internal communications. These can lead to poor strategic coordination, customer...
Developing Trust: Competitive Advantage from Trust
The natural trusting relationships that exist between members of a family business can be a tremendous competitive advantage, but of course, trusting...
Formality and Informality: When it's Okay to Relax
One of the benefits of running your business with other members of your family ought to be that you can afford to relax a little more and not worry...
Holding Family Business Meetings
Just like family gatherings, successful business meetings require good organisation, communication and cooperation - but like family gatherings, they may sometimes...
How to Avoid Management by Committee
By their nature a family business will to some degree be run by committee. Family members whether they are directly involved in the business itself or not will often...
How to Keep your Business Going in Times of Family Crises
One of the problems with running a business whose members are all from the same family is that, from time to time, families get hit by crises which...
The Family Manager: Alleviating Pressure
Being a business manager is a high pressure job, and never more so than when it's a family business, with the long term well being of the whole...
