It should not come as a surprise — yet it does for many family businesses — to learn that the most significant challenge standing in the way of enterprise longevity is family dissonance.

For founder-led and family-owned businesses, eCommerce has become one of the most powerful engines of growth.

Balancing business demands with family harmony is both an art and a science. It’s important to nurture family bonds while scaling your business.

In family businesses around the world it is not strategy that is the cause of collapse but silence.

Tough conversations are part of any business, but when family is involved, they can be even more complex and charged with emotion. In a family business, discussing finances, roles, and succession planning can be difficult because, in addition to business interests, personal relationships are on the line. However, when handled correctly, these challenging discussions can become a way to grow, create stronger bonds, and to becoming a more resilient business. In family business,

Every business has its own unique culture but never more so than within a family business. Family businesses feel different, and a strong family business culture can inspire high levels of engagement and commitment from employees. Beverley Mitchell from Beverley Mitchell Consulting shares 8 tips with us about how you can utilise your own unique culture to drive long term business effectiveness and success. 1. Consider your culture and values as a whole. This is your Unique Se

There is no ‘one size fits all’ approach when it comes to protecting family wealth, passing this to future generations in an appropriate way, and at the ‘right time’. Setting up a Family Investment Company (“FIC”) is increasingly a popular choice for successful family business owners as part of their broader succession and tax planning strategy. Planning with trusts has a significant role in protecting family wealth for future generations, however with limitations placed on t

“What do you mean we can’t pay dividends this year?” Elisa was incredulous. The board of the watch company she and her husband Mark had founded had just reviewed projected end-of-year performance. Usually this meeting was a celebration of another incremental step forward, with moderate growth, no debt, and significant dividends, which Elisa and Mark used to support their comfortable lifestyle and charitable donations. This year, however, revenue growth was way up, but profits