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Financing a business. Here's what you need to know and a comparison of advantages and disadvantages of different sources for financing your business.
Family Business Expert Don Schwerzler offers success strategies for family businesses
An advisory board made up of experienced outsiders brings a fresh perspective to problems and opportunities that face both the family and the family business.
Exit planning is necessary because you will transfer your business interest - either during your lifetime, or you will die or become incapacitated. Learn how to avoid the chaos of forced liquidation.
Our family business executive coach can help a family business realize its true potential - helping businesses perform better and improve the value proposition
Using an experienced family business facilitator makes family business meetings and retreats more effective.
Family business SWOT analysis can be a critical exercise in making a family business successful.
Our Family Business Assessment process has been perfected over 40 years working hundreds of family businesses, large and small and a broad spectrum of industries
Family Business Consulting resources provided by Atlanta-based Family Business Institute offer tips and success strategies for family businesses
developing a coronavirus business recovery strategy can help the business survive.
Learning and innovation are two linked strategies for successful family businesses. Here are nine changes that will shape innovation.
Continue reading "Learning and Innovation - The Art of Connecting Them"
A functional alcoholic is a person fighting alcoholism without the classic signs of full blown alcoholism.
Family business advisor Don Schwerzler, top family business expert and founder of the Family Business Institute has been studying and advising family businesses for more than 40 years.
A battleground can result in the family business from mixing good family behaviors with an effective business system.
Continue reading ""Battleground" Describes Your Family Business?"
Our family business strategy master can help a family business owner realize the true potential of the business.
An online business plan is different than a regular business plan. Describes an outline and seven ways an online business plan differs.
Continue reading "Online Business Plan - Differs from other Business Plans"
Performance metrics requires that the major work functions in every department be identified both in terms of volume and time. The premise is that work not measured cannot be managed.
"My work as a family business advisor has enabled me to be closely involved with many hundreds of family businesses, large and small, and across all industry lines," says family business expert Don Schwerzler.
"Over the years, the most important lesson I have learned is that every family business is unique and complex, in its own way," notes Schwerzler. "Boiler plate consulting approaches simply do not work for family-owned businesses."
Business plan outlines provide the backbone for your business plan. We compare two popular business plan outlines to show you that the backbone does not need to be rigid and fixed in order to provide
Continue reading "Business Plan Outlines Are the Backbone of Your Business Plan"
Responsibility diffusion is critical impediment to successfully growing a family business
For many family businesses, 40–90% of analytic type data goes unused, or is “dark (not available),” according to recent research. "Family business analytics can be used to achieve dramatic improvements in operational performance and profitability," reports family business strategy master Don Schwerzler.
Continue reading "Analytics Is the oxygen that drives Innovation"
Chaos Busters - The Management Guide provides questions that will make your organization more effective, efficient and scalable
Intra-family loans are common practice for family businesses according to leading expert DON SCHWERZLER.
Atlanta-based Family Business Institute is a leading Family Business Resource Center (FBRC) providing connected solutions to the unique and complex issues that confront family businesses.
Being a family business troubleshooter can be akin to being in a room of mirrors.
Environmental Management Systems under ISO 14000 - an alternative to the traditional big stick command and compliance system of dealing with environmental liability.
Continue reading "Environmental Management Systems under ISO 14000"
Environmental liability is a hidden time bomb that can wipe out the value of a family business. Learn about the defenses and how to prevent environmental liability.
Continue reading "Environmental Liability: Hidden Time Bomb"
Alcoholism is a disease that can hurt family businesses when a key family member is losing the battle with alcohol addiction
A family mission statement helps to separate the family's interaction with the family business.
Family feuds won't kill your family business if you follow these seven simple tips.
Continue reading "Family feuds can be avoided with seven simple tips"
Family Business Experts is the best family business resource on the Internet. We offer hundreds of great strategies and tips for families in business together.
The single best succession management strategy is to create an advisory board. Learn why,and how in this interview with a succession management expert.
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.