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Trevor Dickinson
- Oct 4, 2022
- 8 min
HOW TO IMPROVE FATHER-SON RELATIONSHIPS
The conflict between fathers and sons relates to traditional male roles.
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Trevor Dickinson
- May 30, 2022
- 4 min
BREAK DOWN THE WALL OF SILENCE
Communication is the key to success in maintaining a successful family agribusiness.
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Trevor Dickinson
- Mar 25, 2022
- 23 min
CONFLICTS THAT PLAGUE FAMILY BUSINESSES
Examining some of the more difficult underlying psychological elements in operating family businesses & suggestions for ways of coping
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Trevor Dickinson
- Feb 20, 2022
- 5 min
ARE YOU A ‘PEOPLE-PLEASER’ OR A ‘JUSTICE COLLECTOR’?
‘People-pleasers’ and ‘injustice-collectors’ tend to suffer from the same basic problem: a lack of self-esteem.
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Trevor Dickinson
- Jul 28, 2021
- 5 min
MEDIATION AND THE FAMILY BUSINESS
Mediation can play an important role, privately and confidentially in preventing a conflict from developing into a serious ongoing dispute.
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Trevor Dickinson
- Jul 7, 2021
- 5 min
WHY CONSIDER A PREMARITAL AGREEMENT?
Together with a restrictive shareholder agreement a premarital agreement ensures that an ex-spouse will not be a family business shareholder
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Trevor Dickinson
- Jun 21, 2021
- 7 min
WHEN THE FAMILY BUSINESS IS A SICKNESS
When serious problems arise, the family business is treated, for all practical purposes, as a patient.
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Trevor Dickinson
- Jun 21, 2021
- 4 min
SURVIVING PRENUPTIAL AGREEMENTS
It is never advisable to present a prenuptial agreement prior to convening a mutual discussion.
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Trevor Dickinson
- Jun 11, 2021
- 3 min
WHEN PARENTS AND CHILDREN CLASH
The road to successful succession planning is seldom as straight as the rows of trees in an orchard, but undue nastiness can be avoided.
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Trevor Dickinson
- Apr 19, 2021
- 6 min
FAMILY CONFLICT WHEN THE BUSINESS FACES CRISIS
Failure to address unresolved family conflicts will affect performance of the family business.
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Trevor Dickinson
- Mar 9, 2021
- 2 min
WHEN FATHERS & SONS CLASH - RESOLUTION TAKES COURAGE
Resolution can best be achieved when father and son understand the origins of the conflict.
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Trevor Dickinson
- Mar 9, 2021
- 8 min
HOW TO IMPROVE FATHER-SON WORK RELATIONSHIPS
Both father and son must understand the origins of their conflict in order to change their perspectives.
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Trevor Dickinson
- Feb 8, 2021
- 2 min
FATHER-SON WORK RELATIONSHIPS - THERE ARE ALWAYS TWO POINTS OF VIEW
Since the dawn of history fathers and sons have worked together with varying degrees of happiness and success.
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