Business Family Enterprise Report - Moving From Success to Significance

When parents openly display fear of failing, it can unintentionally portray entrepreneurship as unsafe, undesirable, or even shameful. This doesn't help their successors or the business.

Skip-generation entrepreneurship combines the wisdom of business founders with the energy and tech savviness of their grandchildren.

Family business succession involves transferring ownership as well as management. Family circumstances and past events lead to three types of ownership transfers.

Low trust, resistance to change, and intergenerational communication gaps can prevent new strategies and collaboration from taking root.

Mentoring plays a huge role in shaping how the next generation views the role of family business leader, a study in China shows.

While professional non-family leadership may bring some advantages, the stability brought by family leaders may encourage employees to innovate without fear of failure.

Blurring work and personal lives can lead to stress and exhaustion. Family businesses do these four things to create healthier boundaries.

When a family member struggles with addiction, the consequences can ripple throughout the firm and increase its risks.

Like organisms in nature, the relationship between family and business can be mutually beneficial or detrimental. Here's how to strengthen both spheres.

The Two Approaches Are SO Different Enterprising families preparing to transition responsibilities and asset ownership to their next generation typically rely on various experts along the way. Regular readers of mine know that I specialize in accompanying families on such journeys, trying to help them get things right. You’ll also recognize that I’m sometimes frustrated […]

In this podcast with Luke Hansen-MacDonald, Ian Wilson talks about how the family business—and family bonds—have stayed strong through eight generations in Atlantic Canada

Louis Cauffman's Developing and Sustaining a Successful Family Business introduces a groundbreaking fusion of family therapy principles and practical business strategies through the lens of the solution-focused model. The following are key insights from the book, helping both business families and a

The following are the key insights from Lifetime to Legacy: A New Vision for Multigenerational Family Businesses by Nike Anani: Creating a Transformational Business Nike Anani makes a compelling case for why family businesses must transform rather than merely transition. While "transition" implies m

How Did Their Previous Ventures Together Go? Each week here I share some of the realities that surround the kind of work I do with families. Recognizing that my work is part of a “niche within a niche”, I know full well that most people have difficulty grasping just what it is that I’m trying […]

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Being a driven, family owned company is the key to one local business’ success, according to its director, after taking home the title of 2025 Goldfields Business of the Year.

Luke Hansen-MacDonald is host of Beyond the Family Business, a podcast soon to be featured on Canadian Family Offices.

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Conflict is inevitable, but how you handle it in a family enterprise is a choice. Sep 6, 2025 Last May, Arthur Demoulas, CEO of the iconic family-owned Boston supermarket chain Market Basket, was put on leave by the business’s board, including three fellow shareholders—his sisters—when they suspected he was secretly planning a work stoppage to disrupt the business because of perceived mistreatment by the board. Demoulas also allegedly asserted that only his children could succeed him. It was

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Retirement for founders and stepping back from the family business means redefining roles so they stay relevant without becoming a bottleneck

In the U.S., some 32 million family-owned businesses contribute $7.7 trillion to GDP every year.

Not many family office advisors are trained to make peace among their clients. How to promote unity and trust

This Government is much more comfortable with large multi-nationals than smaller enterprises that are the building blocks of our prosperity

Jotham Koslowsky worked at a drugstore for 10 years, followed by a decade-long stint at an IT company, but it wasn’t until he entered the family business that he found fulfilling work.