Family-owned businesses are and have always been the foundation to a free society’s economic success, and, with this reality also comes the opportunity and challenges of working professionally together when its family and non-family blended together for the organization’s daily operations. Balancing these realities, along with legacy employees expectations, sacred-cows, healthy P&Ls, developing the talent hierarchy for next generation succession, and, exceeding customer’s expectations can be a daunting.As I work with family-owned business from Berlin to California, from London to Wisconsin, from Toronto to West Virginia and all parts in between, the challenges and opportunities …
