Resources for Family and Non-Family Businesses
Five Questions Every Owner Should Ask After Reading Berkshire’s Letter
What makes a business durable enough to perform, grow, and create value beyond the presence of one extraordinary leader?
The Team Behind the Talent: A World Cup Lesson About Culture
Major sporting events capture our attention and give us a chance to watch enormously talented individuals attempt to perform as one team under extraordinary pressure.
The Real AI Issue for SMBs is Trust
Will the people inside and outside your business trust how you use AI?
The Cost of Doing Nothing in a Family Business
Doing nothing has a cost. Learn how delay affects competitiveness, efficiency, security, and long term value in your family business.
AI Your Business Can Steer
Where can AI help us without taking us out of the driver’s seat?
Managing Uninsurable Business Risk in a Family Business
Learn how family businesses can manage uninsurable risk through stronger strategy, better processes, and a culture built for long term success.
The Quiet Erosion of Teamwork in the Age of AI
For decades, leadership experts have repeated a simple truth: business is a team sport. Organizations succeed not because individuals produce brilliant work in isolation, but because groups of people learn to integrate ideas, challenge one another, and ultimately align around a decision.
Build It to Last: How Sustainable Leadership Creates Enduring Business Value
Learn how sustainable leadership, financial discipline, and strong systems create long term enterprise value in privately held companies.
Corporate Culture and Sexual Harassment, Why Behavior Defines the Standard
Move beyond legal minimums. Learn how defining workplace behavior strengthens corporate culture and reduces sexual harassment risk.
What the Marines Teach Us About Unity in Business
Inspired by a Marine’s reflection on unity, John P. Foster explores how businesses can achieve battlefield-level cohesion through shared purpose and aligned behaviors. A must-read for leaders focused on culture and performance.
The Hidden Cost of AI Hand-Offs: Why Agentic Efficiency Can Erode Value If You’re Not Watching the Gaps
When humans hand off work, mistakes and inefficiencies creep in. The same holds true for AI agents. Learn why managing digital hand-offs is key to protecting value, efficiency, and your company’s IP.
How to Build a Strong Corporate Culture That Drives Business Success
In today’s competitive business landscape, it’s not enough to focus on strategy alone. Corporate culture—those underlying behaviors, attitudes, and values that guide how a company operates—plays an equally vital role in determining long-term success.
Why Company Culture Is Your #1 Long‑Term Advantage
Family and non-family businesses alike have much to gain by expanding their focus on developing a culture that is aligned with their mission. Just ask these folks what it’s meant to them.
10 Key Strategies for Family Business Success and Exit Planning
Every year we make commitments both personally and professionally. We commit to developing our strategic plan, establishing a board of advisors or some other important issue to our family business. Consider this countdown to success for this new year and get to work!
How to Reduce Candidate Ghosting in Three Simple Steps
What Candidate Ghosting says about the direction of today’s broken hiring process. Three steps to reduce Candidate Ghosting and watching your hiring efforts go up in smoke.
How to Stir the Pot and Actually Engage Your People
Employee engagement begs for questioning the status quo. Learn why here.