Family Business Articles

Transition Consulting Group has written about various family business topics ranging from succession of ownership and leadership to communication and conflict resolution.  Our articles have been published in several different magazines including BusinessWeek Online, Family Business Review, Family Business Magazine, FFI Intelligence Matters, FFI Practitioner and Campden FB.

So You’re in the Family Business
A collection of short articles based on real happenings in real family businesses.  Individual and company names have been altered to respect privacy.  These brief previews are intended to whet your appetite to read further to gain insights into the events of other business families, perhaps, not too dissimilar to your own.

BusinessWeek Online
The breadth of issues that business families face is simply extraordinary.  As well said by one family businessman, “From a distance, they all look alike, but when you get up close they’re like snowflakes.”  No two are ever identical.  These are real tales from the trenches.  You’ll find stories about the challenges faced by seniors struggling to “let go” and the younger generation trying to “take hold.”  In this collection of articles from BusinessWeek Online, you will also find stories about entitlement, trust, empowerment, values, fairness and more.

Family Business Review
Family Business Review is the scholarly journal of the Family Firm Institute. The contents of FBR include articles of interest to researchers, academics, educators, and practitioners who serve family enterprises.

Family Business Magazine
Family Business
is the only dedicated magazine that targets thriving multi-generational North American family companies. It offers a vital and active paid circulation of more than 6,800 committed family company owners, leaders and shareholders and is run by a family company for family companies. Family Business Publishing Company is a multigenerational media and investment firm which lives and breathes family-owned company issues.

FFI Intelligence Matters
Intelligence Matters is a series of interviews conducted by Paul Karofsky, Chair of the Family Business Advisory Committee of the Family Firm Institute.  Each interview features a compelling discussion on a critical topic of timely relevance with the unique perspective of family enterprise leaders from around the globe.

FFI Practitioner
The Practitioner is an electronic journal, published two to four times a year by the Family Firm Institute.  Its purpose is to provide family business professionals and family wealth advisors with practical, user-friendly content on best practices from across the core disciplines of behavioral science, law, finance, and management science as well as the latest cross-disciplinary thinking in these fields.

Campden FB
Since 2001, Campden FB has provided business-owning families of substantial wealth with news, analysis and features via our highly regarded magazine.  With unrivalled access to CEOs of the world’s leading family businesses and insight from the most respected experts in the field, Campden FB tackles the crucial issues facing ultra high net worth, multigenerational global family businesses.

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