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Moore OK Tornado – Charity Organizations Need Help

Our thoughts and prayers are extended to the people of Moore, Oklahoma.

Yesterday afternoon, Moore was hit by a massive tornado – winds that may have exceeded 200 miles per hour and on the ground for more than 40 minutes.

Estimates are that the tornado cut a swath 2 miles wide and 20 miles long – the total destruction of schools, churches, homes, medical facilities and businesses is hard to comprehend.

There are a number of charity organizations that will be supplying aid – they need your financial contributions to support their mission.

To check out a list of vetted charity organizations, click on the link at the bottom of this Blog

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Who Goes To Air Shows? Everyone!

Air shows are one of the most popular community events in America. Learn why they are so popular and what an extensive target audience they repesent for marketing.

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Pavimentadoras

Pavimentadoras - Un pavimento con Pizzazz

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Pavers

Pavers - A Pavement With Pizzazz

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Family Business Forum

The Family Business Forum provides a soap box for family business owners.

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Chaos Busters for Consultants & Advisors

Chaos Busters - A Management Guide for consultants and advisors. Ideal for improving your client's performance, creating a mission statement or doing SWOT Analysis

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Ask the Family Business Expert

Ask The Family Business Expert - Here's your chance to ask our family business expert about issues and concerns you may have about your family business.

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Fiore RX

Fiore RX is an anti-fungal nail polish developed by three entreprenurial podiatrists.

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Toenail Fungus Tips

Highly acclaimed Atlanta podiatrist offers 5 toenail fungus tips for summer-friendly feet

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Succession Planning Survey

Use this succession planning survey along with Don Schwerzler's no-cost assessment to help you beat the dismal 30% odds that your family business will transition to the next generation.

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Happy Mother's Day

A special “Happy Mother’s Day” greeting to all of the mothers involved in family businesses!

When we are helping a family business develop and implement a succession strategy, we study the role that “mom” plays in the family’s business. We often refer to her as the CEO of the family’s business – the Chief Emotional Officer!

Very often “mom” is the peacemaker in a family business – the shock absorber when there are inter-generational and intra-generational disputes going on that are ripping at the family and/or the family’s business.

All too often, the role of “mom” in a family business is under-valued and even unrecognized in many family-owned businesses.

Mother’s Day is a good time to give mom the recognition she desires for her work with the family and the family’s business.

To read more about “mom” as the CEO (Chief Emotional Officer) of a family business, click on the link at the bottom of this Blog.

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Chaos Busters for Business Owners

Chaos Busters For Business Owners - A Management tool to make your business more effective

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Every Family Business

Every Family Business presents 12 common-sense questions that can help a family business create and preserve the wealth of the family

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Comprehensive SWOT Analysis

Answer these questions - and you have a comprehensive SWOT Analysis - your Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats

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29 Leadership Practices - The Foundation

These 29 leadership practices are the foundation for adaptable organizations. They support the holonomic processes, which enable the desired organizational characteristics.

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Schwerzler-ANZ-Inperspective

Schwerzler-ANZ-Inperspective article featuring Don Schwerzler, Family Business Expert, published by Australia and New Zealand Bank

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Packaging Products and Services

Packaging products and services is the crucial junction where products and services are conjoined with marketing and advertising strategies to improve branding and value perception that will increase

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Future Proof Your Family Business

As a family business owner, what are you doing to future proof your family business?

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Sustainability Initiatives

Sustainability initiatives make our planet a better place on which to live.

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Don Schwerzler Interview

Don Schwerzler founded the Family Business Institute in the early 80’s. Headquartered in Atlanta, it became the very first multi-disciplined, full service resource for family-owned businesses.

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Company Mission Statements: Dreams and Goals

Company mission statements show how the dream will become reality - the goals a company must reach and the methods it will use to reach those goals - what the company is all about.

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Leadership Practices Assessment

Leadership practices assessment is a simple and quick way to assess the leadership practices in your organization. This gives insight into organizational problem solving.

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Innovation

Innovation is a key leadership practice

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Contingency Plan for an Uncertain Future

A contingency plan uses strategies required to cover the death or incapacitation of key family managers.

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Using A Ghost Writer Makes Good Business Sense

Using a ghost writer makes good sense for small to medium-sized family businesses. Learn about several situations where a seasoned ghost writer can present the family's best interests.

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Bavarian Inn

‘Family is Everything’ for Frankenmuth’s Bavarian Inn.

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Pruning the family business tree

Pruning applies to family businesses as well as trees. Prune to ensure that only qualified family members are employed. And learn what non-employee family members can contribute.

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Family Business Institute

The original Family Business Institute is Atlanta based and founded by Don Schwerzler. The Family Business Institute is internationally recognized for providing solutions to family business problems

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Chaos Busters

Chaos Busters - The Management Guide will make your work easier and more effective. Ideal for improving your organization's performance, creating a mission statement or doing SWOT and GAP analysis

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risk management insurance

Risk management insurance should be considered as part of the risk management plan for every family business

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Balson Family Butcher Business

The Balson family butcher business has been serving customers for 25 generations and almost 500 years.

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Transition tips for family businesses

The transition of ownership from one generation to the next can cause havoc in the family business and the family. Here are three ideas to help ensure success for your family business.

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Xerojardines

Xerojardines sigue siendo un término relativamente desconocido, excepto para el comercio paisaje.

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Xeriscaping

The term xeriscaping comes from the Greek word for dry (xeros) combined with the word “landscaping.” It is a term that became popular in the 1980s, when global concern peaked for our dwindling na

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Dealing With Alcoholism in a Family Business

Dealing with alcoholism in a family business is a tough and complex problem that can wreck the family and destroy the family's business

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Southern Business Research

Southern Business Research strategies enable businesses to improve growth and profits

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reciclables en el paisaje

Cada vez es más común ver a los materiales reciclables en el paisaje, a partir de artículos para el hogar que en el pasado acabarían en un vertedero.

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Private Investigator - Introduction and case studies

A private investigator provides family business with a wide range of services. Meet our family business security expert and read about some of the cases he has solved.

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Olivia Munoz Mickalonis

Olivia Munoz Mickalonis is a service disabled veteran and a landscape architect

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PGOO

PGOO is the best book available on leadership and organization

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