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Trevor Dickinson
- May 30
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Jan 29, 2021
- 6 min
WHAT'S IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE FAMILY AND THE BUSINESS?
Not all family businesses understand the importance of a Family Council, and therefore they neglect to develop one.
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Trevor Dickinson
- Jan 25, 2021
- 3 min
THE CHALLENGES FACING FAMILY BUSINESSES
The friction between loved ones and business interests is what makes family business unique.
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