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BREAK DOWN THE WALL OF SILENCE
Communication is the key to success in maintaining a successful family agribusiness.
Trevor Dickinson
May 30, 20224 min read
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CAN A NON-FAMILY SUCCESSOR ADD VALUE TO YOUR BUSINESS?
Companies frequently count on non-family CEOs to provide expertise, contacts, or other assets that current family leaders lack.
Trevor Dickinson
May 30, 20226 min read
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WHY FAMILY BUSINESSES OUTPERFORM OTHERS
Numerous studies in the last few years indicate that family enterprises are, overall, more successful than their non-family counterparts.
Trevor Dickinson
Mar 29, 20224 min read
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CONFLICTS THAT PLAGUE FAMILY BUSINESSES
Examining some of the more difficult underlying psychological elements in operating family businesses & suggestions for ways of coping
Trevor Dickinson
Mar 25, 202223 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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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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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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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.
Trevor Dickinson
Jun 11, 20213 min read
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INABILITY TO SUCCESSFULLY PASS ON FAMILY BUSINESS VIEWED AS A FAILURE
Family business owners historically viewed the inability to successfully pass ownership from generation to generation as a failure of sorts.
Trevor Dickinson
May 18, 20213 min read
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ESTATE PLANNING TO MINIMIZE STRIFE
When business-owning parents leave their children equal shares, a battle can erupt between those who work at the company and those who don’t
Trevor Dickinson
Apr 28, 202110 min read
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NOT SO FORTUNATE – TRYING TO SELL HIS BUSINESS
The key to developing and executing successful exit plans for private business owners.
Trevor Dickinson
Apr 28, 20213 min read
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THE ‘KEEP OR SELL’ DEBATE
Business families can get stuck on emotional issues when weighting the sale of an ancestor’s legacy.
Trevor Dickinson
Apr 19, 20215 min read
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THE CHALLENGES FACING FAMILY BUSINESSES
The friction between loved ones and business interests is what makes family business unique.
Trevor Dickinson
Jan 26, 20213 min read
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THE FIVE INSIGHTS OF LONG-LASTING SUCCESSFUL FAMILIES IN BUSINESS
The most critical issues facing business-owning families are family-based issues more than they are business-based issues.
Trevor Dickinson
Jan 18, 20213 min read
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