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The Hidden Cost of Emotional Decision-Making in Family Businesses

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Whether it’s promoting a child who’s not ready, avoiding tough conversations with a sibling, or resisting outside advice to ‘keep peace,’ emotional decision-making often drives critical decisions that should be based on logic, strategy, or data. Many family businesses find themselves struggling through the decision-making process due to various emotional factors at play. Emotional decision-making […]

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Cybersecurity Threats Every Mid-Sized Business Should Be Watching

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As cyberattacks increasingly target mid-sized businesses, “it won’t happen to us” is no longer a safe assumption. These companies are prime targets, handling sensitive data without enterprise-grade defenses. Staying informed and proactive is critical to avoiding financial loss, data breaches, and reputational damage. Why “It Won’t Happen to Us” Is No Longer an Option Cybercriminals

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Conscious Leadership & Family Business – Leadership Development

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Leading a family business is a distinct challenge, demanding a unique blend of strategic acumen and an acute understanding of interpersonal dynamics. Truly effective leadership in this environment hinges on a deep personal foundation and a lot of intention and focus on how you lead. In comes conscious leadership – an approach centered on cultivating

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Legacy Meets Agility: How Family-Owned Businesses Drive Innovation

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Family-owned businesses may be seen as steeped in tradition — committed to their heritage, customers, employees and communities. Underlying this reputation lies a surprising twist: many family enterprises also are leading innovators in their industries. Their unique mix of long-term thinking, deep-rooted values, and cross-generational leadership creates fertile ground for reinvention. When done well, innovation

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Essential Documents for Your Family Business – Succession Planning

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At the Succession Planning Roundtable: Back to Basics – Essential Documents for Your Family Business, Bea Wolper with Emens Wolper Jacobs & Jasin and Meredith Sugar with Taft/ facilitated a highly informative and engaging roundtable discussion focused on the foundational legal documents every family business needs. The conversation was filled with practical advice, cautionary tales,

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Unlocking Potential: How Saying “No” Empowers Everyone – Leadership Development

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We’ve all been there, especially in a family business: the lines between work and personal life blur, an overflowing inbox extends into weekend family gatherings, and business discussions seep into holidays. In the relentless pace of leadership within a family business, it can feel counterintuitive, even disloyal, to decline an opportunity or delegate a task,

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Maintaining Trust in the Family Business – Next Gen Leaders

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Trust is a powerful and delicate thing. Like much of what we rely on in our family business relationships, trust offers us a paradox of sorts that can be difficult to navigate. In our most recent NextGen Leaders Group at the Conway Center for Family Business, we explored how trust is built, how it grows,

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Leading a Family Business with Siblings and Cousins – May Educational Program

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At the May Monthly Educational Program: Leading a Family Business with Siblings and Cousins, Becky Fromkes, Professional Implementer with EOS Worldwide, facilitated a dynamic and insightful conversation with siblings Jenny & David Jarvis of Jendco Safety Supply and brothers Adam and Eric Stolly, and their cousin Joel Stolly of Stolly Insurance Agency. The panelists shared

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Does Your Business Have an AI Policy?

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The AI wave has quickly revolutionized business over the past few years, finding its way into everything from customer service chatbots to predictive analytics, human resources departments, and a long list of other use cases. Yet, as adoption accelerates, many businesses still underestimate the risks of AI. To make matters worse, inconsistent, and incomplete regulations

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Meetings Stink… and what you can do about it

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Why Meetings? Meetings are everywhere—so common, they fade into the background. With more than 11 million meetings happening every day in the U.S. alone, we’ve come to treat them like office wallpaper: bland, unremarkable, and not worth examining. But ubiquity doesn’t mean harmless. Many of us have quietly resigned ourselves to the idea that meetings

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