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Business Resources
Resources for the different stages a business goes through from start up to decay or regeneration, across time.
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Start Up
Young business founded on entrepreneur model and founders’ ability to offer a product or service.
Growth & Formalization
New levels of competition increase as the company leaves the niche market and enters larger more competitive areas. Requires strategic planning and management that may also engage outside professionals and more formal operating processes and procedures.
Maturity & Stability
Focus on development of organizational talent and creating a structurally flexible framework to rapidly manage threats or take advantage of opportunities that arise in meaningful ways.
Regeneration
Key stakeholders face a strategic choice between further growth and maturity. If growth or reinvention is not prioritized these businesses have a heightened risk of decline.
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Start Up
Growth & Formalization
Maturity & Stabilization
Regeneration
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anemptytextllineKey Questions for West Michigan Family Businessesanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineEPIC Awards: Family Owned Business of the Yearanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineUnderstanding the Key Transitions in the Family Business Life Cycleanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllinePart 3, NextGen Series: A Leader in All of Usanemptytextlline
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anemptytextlline15th Annual Family Business Forum: A Story of Family Business Transformationanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineLunch with Leaders: Attracting and Retaining Talentanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineBoard of Directors Workshopanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineRightsizing Risk Series: Creating Value for the Futureanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineRightsizing Risk Series: Fraud in the Family Businessanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineBanking Relationships that Make an Impact to your Bottom Lineanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineNew Research Suggests Family Business Profit in Risk Takinganemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineSchupan & Sons: A West-Michigan Story of Family Business Resilienceanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineThree Paths to Growth: Which One Fits Your Company?anemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineAnatomy of a Deal: Mergers & Acquisitionsanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineEight Takeaways from Tax Season for Family Business Ownersanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineFinding Top Talent – When It’s Time to Get Some Helpanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineUsing Outside Directors in Your Family Businessanemptytextlline
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anemptytextlline3 Ways Your NextGen Can Increase Your Valuationanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineFamily-Owned Businesses Wrestle with Talent Concernsanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineIs family part of your brand identity?anemptytextlline
Resources for the key and controlling stakeholder(s).
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Founders Dream
First stage of ownership. Owner(s) makes all decisions.
Sibling Partnership
Siblings jointly own shares of the business. Leadership maybe singled out to a primary family member.
Cousin Consortium
More mature ownership model that includes extended family through multiple generations.
Distant Relatives
Extension of the initial family circle to include and facilitate family succession.
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Founders Dream
Cousin Consortium
Sibling Partnership
Distant Relatives
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anemptytextllineKey Questions for West Michigan Family Businessesanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineEPIC Awards: Family Owned Business of the Yearanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineWhy Won't My Parents Retire and Let Me Run the Family Businessanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineUnderstanding the Key Transitions in the Family Business Life Cycleanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllinePart 3, NextGen Series: A Leader in All of Usanemptytextlline
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anemptytextlline15th Annual Family Business Forum: A Story of Family Business Transformationanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineEntitlement with Kim Eddlestonanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineBuilding Trust in Sibling and Cousin Partnerships: Moving from Partners of Chance to Partners of Choiceanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineYour 7-Step Plan for Creating Chaos in Your Family Businessanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineFemale Leadership in the Family Businessanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineExit Planning Series – Are you Ready to Make an Ownership Transition?anemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineFamily Businesses are Differentanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineFamily Succession: How to Achieve Equityanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineFour Steps to Increase Separation Between Work and Familyanemptytextlline
Resources for the various experience and engagement levels of family leadership in the business.
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Leading the Business
Control is held to either one primary family leader or shared among siblings. Leadership oversees all strategy and operations.
Joining the Business
Introduction of the potential successor(s) to build professional experience, operational experience and respective industry knowledge. Younger generations are learning the business operations and are in the early stages of leadership. At this stage, business implements professionalization of roles and key formal processes are developed.
Working Together
Next generation has its own visions and often a strong desire to introduce more strategic thinking, maybe taking on mid-level roles in management. Expansion phase is often linked to the family business’ need for restructuring which may include development of board of directors, family governance policies, and family council meetings to create effective management and direction.
Passing the Baton
Leadership succession can span more than a decade as a succession plan is created and implemented. Each generation transitions to new roles both internally and externally. The family may also sell or expand to different markets. A Family Business may evolve to a Family Office.
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Leading the Business
Joining the Business
Working Together
Passing the Baton
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anemptytextllineKey Questions for West Michigan Family Businessesanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineEPIC Awards: Family Owned Business of the Yearanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineWhy Won't My Parents Retire and Let Me Run the Family Businessanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineUnderstanding the Key Transitions in the Family Business Life Cycleanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineTransition to Transformation - Capital Structures That Work For You.anemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineStrategic Planning for the Next Generationanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllinePart 3, NextGen Series: A Leader in All of Usanemptytextlline
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anemptytextlline15th Annual Family Business Forum: A Story of Family Business Transformationanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineLunch with Leaders: Attracting and Retaining Talentanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineEntitlement with Kim Eddlestonanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineThe Family Constitution: A Foundation for Family Alignmentanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineChanging Disagreement into Dialogue: How to Manage Conflicts and Enhance Communicationanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineYour 7-Step Plan for Creating Chaos in Your Family Businessanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineRightsizing Risk Series: Creating Value for the Futureanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineRightsizing Risk Series: Fraud in the Family Businessanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineBanking Relationships that Make an Impact to your Bottom Lineanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineLeadership Skills that Deliveranemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineThe Secret to Effective Family Business Leadershipanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineUnderstand the Complex Dynamics of Successful Decision Makinganemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineNew Research Suggests Family Business Profit in Risk Takinganemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineFemale Leadership in the Family Businessanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineWhy Won’t My Parents Retire and Let Me Run the Family Business?anemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineExit Planning Series – Are you Ready to Make an Ownership Transition?anemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineHow Servant Leadership Can Ensure the Long-Term Success of the Family-Owned Businessanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineEight Takeaways from Tax Season for Family Business Ownersanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineSuccession can be Non-Family Tooanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineFamily Succession: How to Achieve Equityanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineFour Steps to Increase Separation Between Work and Familyanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineUsing Outside Directors in Your Family Businessanemptytextlline
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anemptytextlline3 Ways Your NextGen Can Increase Your Valuationanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineFamily-Owned Businesses Wrestle with Talent Concernsanemptytextlline
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anemptytextllineIs family part of your brand identity?anemptytextlline