For most of us thinking about how best to improve our processes, deliver better service and wring out unnecessary costs does not include thinking about a Mass Casualty Incident (MCI). Read this abstract and take note to the lessons that could apply to your business even if lives do not hang in the balance.

Should building our workforces be transactional or relationship based?  If you think strategically, let me explain why an important competitive advantage points to the latter choice as the better choice.

Family Business Founders’, Wealth Managers, Advisors as well as those who stand to inherit most often fail to ask a very important question. How to prevent the inheritance of wealth from ruining the lives of those who receive it.

Good leaders understand that the most significant threat to data security is employees because they have too little working knowledge.

Read why adaptability around continuous improvement, cultural alignment and confronting the degree to which one really has control is key to growing in a rapidly changing environment.

It is not enough to simply attract the right people with promises of opportunity.  Keeping them, now there is where the challenge is.  What does it take?  How do you do it?

Leaders acknowledge the growth of risk in five organizational dimensions; strategy, operations, capital structure, culture and branding.

Customers like most creatures often take the path of least resistance. Think about how you strategically plan your “improvements” without real benefits or where the benefits are outweighed by the ultimate cost.

Surviving in business requires questioning your own answers and that starts by realizing the inherent danger of the status quo.  Of all the Family Business Challenges, this ranks among the top five. With contributions by Lisa Genco

So much of the risk inherent in our family businesses is laid off on insurers. Learn more about the latent uninsurable risks we would do well to understand.

You worked your @#$ to build what you have. The missed dinners, ball games and school plays were part of the sacrifice you made for the greater good. I know. Its not unlike my story but did you build it to last?

It’s time to recognize how limited our corporate value statements are in guiding the behaviors that ultimately define the cultures we want in order to be successful.

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