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Strategic Partner

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Spotlight on Our Strategic Partner: Lenox Advisors

Guiding family businesses through transition requires wisdom, strategy, and trusted advisors who understand both the financial and relational challenges involved.   That’s why we’re proud to partner with Abbe F. Large, CLU®, CLTC, Managing Director at Lenox Advisors, a trusted professional...
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Uncomfortable Truths

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11 Uncomfortable Truths Every Family Business Must Face and How to Overcome Them

Family businesses carry an incredible legacy, built on shared values, relationships, and generations of hard work. Yet, they also face unique challenges that, if unaddressed, can threaten the business and the family.   That’s why I’m excited to share a new eBook from The Goldhill Group: The...
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Getting Out of Your Own Way: How Business Owners and Family Leaders Get Stuck and How to Move Forward

“There are known knowns… there are known unknowns… but there are also unknown unknowns.” – Donald Rumsfeld   After more than 24 years of coaching business owners, particularly those in family-run companies, I’ve identified a common obstacle that transcends industries, generations, a...
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The Age of Disruption: Transformative Forces in Family Business, Politics, and Entertainment

In today’s rapidly evolving world, disruption reshapes industries, institutions, and traditions that once seemed unshakable.   Family businesses, politics, and entertainment are three sectors that are seeing enormous disruption with new players, innovative technologies, and shifting societal ...
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Why Personal Growth is the Key to Business Success in Family Enterprises

As I look back on the occasions when I was hired to coach the child of the founder in a family business, one theme has been consistent: Owners want me to ‘fix’ their child, and if I can do that, the business will get better.   It’s an instinct—focus on the person who seems to […]...
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Why Leaders Don’t Pursue Coaching

In my previous blog, I discussed the nine reasons family business leaders resist coaching, making the point that most do not understand how coaching works or the many advantages of hiring an outsider who can bring an independent perspective and guide you to managing the challenges you face quickly a...
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Why Family Businesses Resist Coaching

Why do so many family businesses resist the very help that could ensure their legacy endures for generations?   I recognize and appreciate the resistance to business and leadership coaching. After all, I’ve been selling and delivering these services for over 20 years. And, with family busines...
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Jonathan Goldhill

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The 7 Roles of a Manager: Key Terms for Effective Leadership

Recently, I learned a framework for evaluating managers that struck me as insightful and complementary to a previous post on the 7 Key Result Areas Managers Must Pay Attention To. The framework was adapted from Brian Tracy’s book Eat That Frog!, a book about how to get more things done in less...
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Succession Planning Tips

Since publishing my book, Disruptive Successor: A Guide for Driving Growth in Your Family Business, I’ve been getting more calls from fathers and sons in family businesses looking for help transitioning the leadership from one generation to the next. These calls have come from people in constructi...
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