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Power Tax Planning: Tips for Savings in '95
With tax season looming, it pays to review some of the ways to save big bucks on your returns. As you examine the 20 tax tips that follow, you will notice two recurring themes.First, virtually every t...
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Please Don't Kill Our Business
“I come before the committee today representing my family and the nearly 13.5 million other family businesses in the United States. I am also here on behalf of our employees, who represent a fe...
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Are You Planning to Pass the Torch?
How well are you laying the groundwork for management succession? The following self-test should help you identify strengths and weaknesses. For each question, check the one statement that best descr...
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Creative Ideas for Building an Upscale Image
Big business is perceived as the primary commercial supporter of the arts in the United States. However, more and more small and medium-sized companies—many of them family owned—are developing inn...
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Good Boards Engage in Self-Evaluation
Family business owners should never forget that their responsibility reaches well outside the family. It includes employees, suppliers, customers, and the communities where the business operates. This...
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How to Get Capable Relatives Off Welfare
Fred Silvestri's window manufacturing operation in Battle Creek, Michigan, has grown steadily over the last 10 years. Fred knows his oldest son, Stan, company vice-president, will eventually take over...
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Clashing Cymbals are Music to Their Ears
For years Avedis of Constantinople, an alchemist by trade, searched for the secret that would allow him to transmute base metals into gold. What he found instead, in 1623, was a combination of tin, co...
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How to Rebuild Business Trust
What miswiring of family circuits could possibly lead sons to stage a boardroom coup against a father, as in the Shoen family of U-Haul? What lifelong process of decay could turn a relationship so ro...
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Enjoy the Grandkids--Don't Mentor Them
The other day I had a call from a man who had attended one of my seminars with his wife in Puerto Rico in 1978. This man had been working for 26 years in a business owned by his wife's family. “My f...
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Love, Work, and Scrambled Eggs
In case you didn't notice when you got home last night, participating in a business and participating in a family are two very different experiences. Each has its own goals and purposes, and, yes, th...
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How to Build Character From Beyond the Grave. Not.
Sometimes, life imitates bad art. B-movies, to be exact—like “Easy Money,” “Brewster's Millions,” and “Billy Madison”—where the willful old millionaire...
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Lessons in Realpolitik for Successors
Understanding power—its uses and abuses—is one of the most formidable challenges that face aspiring successors as they rise to positions of authority in family companies. The relatively s...
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Letting Go With Grace and Style
It's Monday afternoon and John Beever, the fourth-generation president of John Dittmar & Sons, has just come in from mowing the grass at his 79-acre horse farm in Maryland. He heads straight for ...
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The Power of the Chief Emotional Officer
Recently, I was invited to participate in the annual shareholders’ meeting of a large, third-generation European company. The high point of the meeting was the appearance of the founder’s wife, a ...
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Cowabunga! Fam-Firms Ride the Third Wave
Alvin and Heidi Toffler appear to be Newt Gingrich’s favorite futurists. The Republican Speaker of the House quotes their books frequently and says he often seeks their counsel. They have been highl...
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Second Opinions on Great Tax Escapes
It’s amazing. Most successful family business owners toil their entire lives to build the business and the family’s wealth. Yet the day they die is a big payday for the IRS. Far too many business ...
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Preventing Your Secrets From Walking Out The Door
It happens more often than you think. A relative knowingly divulges confidential information to a competitor. A son or daughter leaves the firm, on good terms or bad, and starts a competing company ri...
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Why Leaders Need to Redefine Accountability
You have an employee who’s not carrying his weight, and, even though you’ve talked to the person about it several times, nothing has changed. Other employees see the problem, too, and are...
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The Right Kind of Attorney
Richard Narva, moderator The legal profession is learning to appreciate the special skills and sensitivities required to serve family business clients. As more attorneys enter the market, they are ...
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Happiness Is Stock Liquidity
The lack of liquidity options is the most frequently cited source of unhappiness among passive family shareholders. The demands of these shareholders frequently escalate in later generations at just ...
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