Category: Interviews

Invite Your Next Gens to Leadership

A family business adviser shares how to improve family dynamics to help younger family members get ready for top roles. To keep a family business within the family, younger family members must be Read more

Here Are the Next Gen's Biggest Worries

Many want to know where they will fit in the family enterprise; how the wealth will be divided; and how the business will be governed as the family grows in complexity. Dann Van Der Vliet, Executive Read more

How Entrepreneurs Can Lead Through Growth, Complexity, and Change. Pat Alacqua is a seasoned entrepreneur, leadership guide, and author. He has navigated the Entrepreneur to Enterprise journey Read more

A Family Council Can Help Larger Families Stay Connected

Consider one if your family business has 15 or more relatives involved, or multiple generations. Many family firms wonder about whether they need a family council: a group that helps ensure that Read more

Congratulations! You’ve sold your business. Now prepare to be depressed. Most founders see selling their business as a gateway to new wealth and a dream come true. But many underestimate how Read more

Outsource or Hire? Advice for Family Businesses

Ben Berger and Ron Nahass of RSM's Family Office talk about the benefits of letting trusted outsiders handle critical business functions. Operational excellence -- involving people, processes, Read more

Business owner, author, advisor and teacher Sabrina Horn shows how to disarm your fear and organize your risk as you go out on your own. Sabrina Horn spent years working as a manager in a Silicon Read more

The Perks and Pitfalls of Hiring Your Parents

Allen Esrock of NxtGen Nexus weights in on how to optimize the free labor and other benefits, and how to manage conflicting goals, sibling resentment, and suspicious non-relatives who work for you. Read more

John Eckhardt was a sought-after freelance tech consultant. To grow, he had to step back from what came naturally and hire and manage others. Since John Eckhardt was nine years old, programming has Read more

Chris Parsons of Knowledge Architecture talks about how to minimize the financial risk when you leave salaried work, and why you don't need to be a big risk-taker to be a successful business owner. Read more