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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.
Trevor Dickinson
Feb 20, 20225 min read
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DETERMINING ABILITY TO PAY
Can your agribusiness afford to meet your family’s needs? Ability to pay is based on the future, not the past.
Trevor Dickinson
Jan 17, 20225 min read
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BALANCING NEED WITH ABILITY TO PAY
Access to a stable capital base is essential for the long-term success of most enterprises.
Trevor Dickinson
Dec 8, 20216 min read
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ADDRESSING THE FUNDAMENTAL DILEMMA OF FAMILY BUSINESS
The dilemma of family business is what the family needs in order to be healthy often conflicts with what the business needs to thrive.
Trevor Dickinson
Sep 7, 20215 min read
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FAMILY MEETINGS – LEARNING TO PLAN PRODUCTIVELY TOGETHER
Providing a setting for the family to address disagreements helps eliminate resentment by giving everyone a voice.
Trevor Dickinson
Sep 7, 20215 min read
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DIFFICULTIES IF A MAN HOLDS A POSITION OF FORMAL AUTHORITY BEYOND AGE 65 OR 70
Late adulthood is an era of decline as well as opportunity for development.
Trevor Dickinson
Sep 7, 20216 min read
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SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS OWNERS RECOGNISE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF STEWARDSHIP
Business owners who embrace stewardship are motivated to submit to the difficult process of succession.
Trevor Dickinson
Jul 28, 20215 min read
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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.
Trevor Dickinson
Jul 28, 20215 min read
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WHAT IS FAMILY BUSINESS GOVERNANCE?
Strong family business governance is a common and critical characteristic among family businesses that thrive for multiple generations.
Trevor Dickinson
Jul 7, 20215 min read
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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
Trevor Dickinson
Jul 7, 20215 min read
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WHEN THE FAMILY BUSINESS IS A SICKNESS
When serious problems arise, the family business is treated, for all practical purposes, as a patient.
Trevor Dickinson
Jun 21, 20217 min read
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