Since we began, in the mid-1980's with a newsletter we mailed to business owners, we have always sought to distinguish our content from the 'usual fare" and to report on items uniquely relevant to mainstream businesses, privately held and family owned.
Our objective is to provide you with resources that will provide a framework for understanding how to identify, understand, and solve the variety of challenges you will encounter when building your advisor team - who will help you through each issue you and your family must deal with if you expect to survive and prosper in the 21st. Century.
It is vitally important, no matter how secretive you have been in the past, that you be willing to ask for help - and then able to accept it.
You have taken the first step by being here on this page searching for answers.
To those of you for whom asking for help is so difficult, remember this - "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always be where you already are." Nothing is easy!
A key ingredient to taking action is to be sure it is the right action. That means you must identify family goals by building a consensus about the direction everyone wants the family and the business to go in the future.
Much has been written about managing the differences that separate us - however, you will find when you begin the process of having strategic communications among yourselves, that you probably agree on most things, you've just never talked about it, so you don't know it.
Once the planning is underway a time will come when you must put it on paper.
Chances are you (along with your advisors) will have to redesign the business organization. Sometimes it must be recreated from the ground up.
This is something to embrace since it is the mission of the business to make the family's dreams come true - not the other way around.
Just below are links to article categories of particular value to business owners. Each group contains, in addition to our original work, many more and from a wider perspective than we could have ever created in-house.
If you'd rather not scroll though thousands of articles click here and add your keywords in the box to receive links to one or more of the thousands of articles on www.FamilyBusinessStrategies.com or www.iBizResources.com via our new internal search engine.
There are over 2,000 below in 20+ directories!
Articles past, present, and future - Original and Contributed.
Profiles of successful business owners we've interviewed.
Tools and Strategies For Coaches & Other Professional Solution Providers.
Nothing happens until a sale is made! Sales and sales training articles.
Is It Better to Sell, Merge, or Pass the Business to the Next Generation?
Conflict Resolution and Conflict Prevention Articles
Search Engine Strategies - Optimization, Submission, Consultants, etc.
Estate Planning Articles - keep what you've worked so hard to create.
Money is the "straw that stirs the drink" and life insurance creates it!
Internet Marketing Articles - Optimize Your Online Marketing Strategies!
ECommerce Strategies - Take Control of Your Company's Internet Presence!
Communications, a key core competency for 21st Century leaders.
Contributed by Family Business Strategies Authors and Contributors in 2006
Management Made Simple (not necessarily easy) for 21st Century Success
21st Century Peer Group Articles (that support the peer group report)
Business Leadership (do-it-yourself)Strategies for 21st Century Success
Publicity, Get the Maximum Mileage Out of Your Story (and you DO have one)!
Maximize Your Business' Productivity (a key bottom line competency)!
Articles about pre-post retirement issues, challenges and opportunities.
Financial Planning Articles, How to Plan for Your Financial Future
Branding, Marketing, Leadership, and Execution: realize your full potential!
Additional Financial and Retirement Articles.
Master list of articles from 2002-2005 posted on FamilyBusinessStrategies.
I wish you every success possible!
Wayne Messick,Author & Publisher
New York, NY
212-501-4912
Since we began, in the mid-1980's with a newsletter we mailed to business owners, we have always sought to distinguish our content from the 'usual fare" and to report on items uniquely relevant to mainstream businesses, privately held and family owned.