In family businesses, there seems to be little difference between a truly outstanding manager and an adequate manager. The landmark study on how executives learn, grow, and change conducted by…
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Charles E. Merrill was born in 1885 in a small hamlet outside Jacksonville, Florida. As a young man, while Henry Ford was making the Model T automobile as a consumer…
They may only exist as a footnote in the annals of business history books, but Ernest Breech and Thomas White have possibly occupied the most meaningful of all management and…
Hogs. Fat boys. Soft tails. Leather jackets and suicide clutches. Few business marketers have tied their products with a lifestyle image better than William S. Harley and Arthur Davidson from…
Henry James Pillows, our mythical family business owner, has celebrated his 75th birthday and has decided “mandatory retirement or not, I’m leaving.” His four children, all of whom work in the…
“I never thought I would leave the family business.” says the 46 year old unemployed heir of a $20 million Texas based light manufacturing and distribution company. “But when Dad got…
How many times have we heard the expression, “The only constant in business is change?” Enough, probably, to make our ears sore. But like many cliches, this one also rings…
It was mid-life crisis and an observation by cowboy philosopher Will Rogers that turned Harlan Sanders’ life around. In 1930, Rogers observed on his radio show, “Let me tell you…
Studies show that approximately two-thirds of family businesses fail in transition of management to children. One study of family businesses from 1924-1984 reveals that 80% of these businesses had died,…
The goal is to develop communication skills that allow us to discover a mutually beneficial resolution. Communication skills among family members range from “begging for a fight: lose-lose” to “mutual satisfaction: win-win.” Those families that maintain life-long positive communication develop their skills by rigidly adhering to the following “Nine Habits.”
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127 Double Eagle Drive
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Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067
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34522 N Scottsdale Rd.
Scottsdale, AZ 85266
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11823 Mill Rock Road
San Antonio, TX 78230