When our Family Business Forum is launched it will provide business people with anonymous access to the ideas and strategies of professionals with experience helping people like them.

Professional solution providers will offer their insights, experiences, and examples along with their contact information - in case someone is interested in knowing more about them.

And it will contain an RSS feed (blog) so those who subscribe - whether or not they have ever participated in the forum, will know when an issue they are interested in is being discussed.

We are establishing the framework for the discussion based on our cumulative experience of over a century helping business owners redesign the future of their already successful businesses.

Policies and Procedures for Success

• Working Together
• Boards of Advisors
• Organization Charts
• Strategic Planning

Mentoring and Team Building

• An Experience Exchange
• Send Them Packing
• Bridge Management and Team Building
• Succession Planning Begins on Day 1
• Teamwork and the Family Business

Conflict and its Resolution

• Managing Differences
• Family vs Business Dynamics
• Fair vs Equal
• Partners or Rivals?
• Marital Conflict

Management For Growth

• A Vision for the Future
• Organizing for Growth
• Compensation
• Sound Financial Management
• Advisors, Coaches, and Consultants

Leadership and Succession

• Leadership Development
• Succession Planning is Job 1
• Developing Successors
• Hanging On or Letting Go
• Estate Planning and Taxes

Our objective is to provide this open forum as an "experience exchange" between business owners, executives, & successors and the people who seek to serve them.

You'll be able to add the forum to your favorites list, and return to see who else has picked up on your train of thought.

Once we begin receiving posts from professional solution providers we'll all have access to their ideas, experiences, and best thinking - 24/7 when it's important to us.

We hope you will send a link to this page to your professional colleagues, your business owning peers, and your association members.

We want the community to grow organically with people who are interested in exchanging ideas telling others who feel the same about it. In that way we feel the right people will get involved for the right reasons.

Naturally we will monitor what's being posted so if something inappropriate shows up we can delete it and ban the person who posted it. You do not have to post your email address or other personal information unless you want to.

We are looking forward to seeing a body of rich content, transferable ideas, and actionable strategies develop before our eyes.

To be informed immediately when the forum has been launched, visit and subscribe to one or more of our current RSS feeds. You'll be among the first to know about the Family Business Forum!

Sincerely,

Charles Wallace, Managing Director & Executive Editor
Dawn Manning, Managing Editor & Writer
New York, NY
212-501-4912

PS: We hope solution providers will jump on this - contributing their latest ideas, proven time-tested strategies, and tips. Be the first person you know to post!

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