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Trevor Dickinson
- Mar 29, 2022
- 4 min
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.
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Trevor Dickinson
- Dec 8, 2021
- 6 min
BALANCING NEED WITH ABILITY TO PAY
Access to a stable capital base is essential for the long-term success of most enterprises.
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Trevor Dickinson
- Sep 7, 2021
- 5 min
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.
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Trevor Dickinson
- Sep 7, 2021
- 5 min
FAMILY MEETINGS – LEARNING TO PLAN PRODUCTIVELY TOGETHER
Providing a setting for the family to address disagreements helps eliminate resentment by giving everyone a voice.
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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 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
- May 18, 2021
- 3 min
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.
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Trevor Dickinson
- Apr 28, 2021
- 3 min
NOT SO FORTUNATE – TRYING TO SELL HIS BUSINESS
The key to developing and executing successful exit plans for private business owners.
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Trevor Dickinson
- Apr 19, 2021
- 5 min
THE ‘KEEP OR SELL’ DEBATE
Business families can get stuck on emotional issues when weighting the sale of an ancestor’s legacy.
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Trevor Dickinson
- Jan 26, 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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Trevor Dickinson
- Jan 18, 2021
- 3 min
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.
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