A family business, large or small, public or private, is a distinct type of business system with unique challenges. Family businesses are complex, with a high potential for conflict.
These inherent conflicts may cause anger and resentment, damaging both family relations and business operations. Or, stakeholders may try to avoid conflict by delaying important decisions or saddling the enterprise with unworkable compromises – stagnating both business and family development. Complicating this situation is that unlike other business systems, in a family business, the continuing relationships matter. On the job or off the job, the family never stops being a family.
Managing family business conflict while improving the family business itself and ensuring its success is what Continuity Family Business Consulting is all about.
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- September 2010 Doug Baumoel will be presenting at the Wharton Club of Boston on September 16th hosted by Burns & Levinson. This is a closed event.
Doug Baumoel will be leading the meeting of the New England Chapter of the Family Firm Institute as Chapter President on September 23, 2010. Pramodita Sharma, Ph.D. will be presenting, "Professionalization and the Family Business". MORE - October 2010 Doug Baumoel will be attending the FFI Annual Conference in Chicago.
- Learn more about managing conflict in a family business: read Chapter 42 of The Practice Guide for Alternative Dispute Resolution, written by Douglas Baumoel. MORE
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- Managing Change and Transition
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