New Practical Guide: Daughters in Succession

With their new practical guide Daughters in Succession – How Female Successors Become Pioneers, Simon Caspary and Professor Tom A. Rüsen make a well-grounded contribution to advancing equality in family...


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practical guide: Succession to the Management Role

New Guide Offers Holistic Framework for Leadership Succession in Family Businesses How can entrepreneurial families ensure a successful and sustainable leadership transition across generations? The new practical guide Succession to...


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Practical Guide: Learning to let go

The WIFU Foundation has just released the English edition of the practical guide Learning to Let Go: How the Senior Generation Can Proactively Shape the Handover Process and Their Own...


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Include the Extended Family in Your Ownership Strategy

In the new publication „Include the Extended Family in Your Ownership Strategy”, Dr. Claudia Binz Astrachan and Prof. Dr. Tom Rüsen explain why a successful ownership strategy in family businesses...


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New practical guide: crisis management and crisis resilience in family businesses

Existential crises in family businesses often arise from internal decisions and the dynamics between ownership and family relationships. This practical guide focuses on how companies can better prepare for such...


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Involve Next-Gens in Developing Your Social Media Policy

Read the new article on FamilyBusiness.org by Dr. Claudia Binz Astrachan, Prof. Dr. Tom Rüsen, and Rebecca DeYarman to discover why it is important for family businesses to develop a...


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Empowerment and Self-Reflection in Business Families

New practical guide published! In this practical guide, Prof. Dr Heiko Kleve uses a variety of formats, examples and exercises to illustrate how systemic methods of empowerment and self-reflection can...


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Communication in the Business Family

New practical guide published! The practical guide “Communication in the Business Family” by Prof. Dr Heiko Kleve introduces basic theoretical understandings of communication and, most importantly, practical attitudes and methods...


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Enhancing Next Generation Preparation in Family Firms

For those business families who own a family business and wish to successfully maintain their family ownership in the long term, it is important to better understand how to involve,...


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