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- Don’t Worry - You’re Just Like Family: Compensation for Non-Family Executives: Non-family executives may do everything and more than the best of family members, but often, they ca...
- The Company We Keep: At a recent DC Family Business Alliance event, facilitator and “Professional Outsider” David Belden ...
- Crane & Company – This “Stationery” Family Keeps Moving in the Paper Business: Imagine making it to the third or fourth generation, a time when the founder would most certainly ha...
- That's a Shareholder Problem!: Family business owners, managers and professional advisors must always be mindful of the unique natu...
- “Am I My Brother’s Keeper?”: Brothers in Family Business: The relationship between brothers who are business partners is exceptionally complex and -- potentia...
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Family Business Axioms That Need to Get the Ax
In the world of family business, it seems that some “generally accepted” axioms are out of date, yet still frequently quoted. Here are four family business axioms that may need to be put out to pasture. Continue reading
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Goverment Contracting Opportunities for Women-Owned Businesses
Family owned business with women owners ready to take management control can position themselves well for increased opportunities to do business with the government. As such businesses are thinking of succession planning, they should keep this in mind if the next generation of leaders includes women. Continue reading
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Keeping Cool: The Art of Family Negotiations (Part 2 of 2)
Posting by Ed Kopf, Ph. D., Principal at BMC Associates
Negotiating is critical to any relationship. As reviewed in Part 1, there are numerous factors that complicate family business negotiations. In this conclusion, strategies to combat the complications…
Keeping Cool: The Art of Family Negotiations (Part 1 of 2)
Posting by Ed Kopf, Ph. D., Principal at BMC Associates
Negotiations are a critical part of any relationship. Husbands and wives, parents and children, business partners, world leaders – all have to agree on how they will live and work…
Winter 2011 Issue
FEATURE ARTICLE: Whitmore Print and Imaging: Making an Impression on the Family Business
Successful partnerships of siblings are always nice to hear about, but not as common as family businesses might like. Brothers, Steve Shenk and George Shenk, Jr., have…
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Watch out, Dad, here comes ME! How Soon is Too Soon to Start Succession Planning?
Posting by John Morris, CFP, Associate at FranklinMorris
These were the words that came out of my two-and-a-half-year-old son’s mouth when I was “inconveniently” blocking his path down the hallway of our house…quite a bold statement from a man who…
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When Life Gives You Lemons…
Posting by Margaret Wilson, MSOD, Principal at Tandem Partners
In a classic case of turning lemons to lemonade, insurance company Aflac held open auditions in six cities last week, searching for its next “quacksperson.” The former Aflac duck voice, comedian…
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Succession Could Be Just Around the Corner
Posting by Geoffrey Brown, CPA, Principal at Bond Beebe Accountants & Advisors
I recently had a head-on collision with my own mortality when my doctor told me that I needed open-heart surgery to fix a rather unusual problem with my…
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Fairness and Pay in Family Business
Posting by David Gage, Ph.D., Principal at BMC Associates, and Ms. Liubov Sivokhina
Ms. Liubov Sivokhina is a 2nd year MBA student at the Kogod School of Business at American University. She is from Moscow, where her father, an engineer,…
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If You’ve Got It, Flaunt It: Marketing the Fact that Your Business is Family-Owned
Posting by Debra Andrews, Executive Director, Greater Washington DC Family Business Alliance
For some people long ago, it was preferred to keep the “family-owned” status of your company hidden, as it might imply to prospects that your firm was very…
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