Decades of statistics illustrate that most successful businesses ultimately fail.
In fact only 35% of successful family businesses (and virtually all small businesses are family owned) survive through the second generation, and of those only 20% survive through the third.
The reasons are typically straightforward and the excuses have been the same, from my personal experience, for [...]
Entries Tagged as 'family business succession'
Management Succession Planning IS Success For the Family Business
September 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · effective succession planning, family business succession, family business succession planning, management succession planning
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Passing Your Family Business to the Next Generation – Succession Planning
August 31st, 2010 · No Comments · effective succession planning, family business succession, family business succession planning, succession planning process
As Penn State professor William Rothwell ominously points out in the forward to Exit Right: A Guided Tour of Succession Planning for Families in Business Together, more than 40% of the people who run the closely held operations that comprise 80% of the North American economy will retire by 2010.
It makes me wonder, what is [...]
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Succession: No Common Vision for the Future
August 31st, 2010 · No Comments · family business succession
Dr. John Fast explains how one of the problems with succession planning is that there is no common vision for the future.
Do we want to continue this farm business as a family? How many people are interested in this?
Create Common Family Vision.
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