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Succession Planning Challenges: Family Pitfalls to Avoid

Learn how family businesses can overcome succession planning challenges by building stronger leadership pipelines and navigating emotional and organizational hurdles.

Seeing Clearly: Aligning Perceptions and Reality in Family Business Governance

In Family Business, where perception often shapes reality, recognizing misalignments is key to effective leadership. Discover how.

Taking a ‘human-centric' approach to hiring a non-family CEO

The most overlooked step in CEO recruitment is stakeholder management, write Egon Zehnder's Heather O'Keefe and Jason Hecker in this article.

The Complete Guide to Family-Owned Businesses

Discover strategies for family-owned business success, including governance, succession planning, financial management, and more. Your guide to building a lasting legacy.

Balancing the Culture of Family Business

A strong culture can be a competitive advantage -- or it can be a liability. Explore how culture impacts core values and shapes key decisions (i.e.,around leadership and recruitment). Also discuss the role of the board in overseeing culture. Offer quotes/real scenarios from Egon experts.

Common Traits of Successful Family Controlled Companies

Family controlled companies dominate the global economy, balancing tradition and innovation to sustain their legacies. What traits drive their success?

Building Enduring Cultures: Lessons from Family Businesses

In every organization, there is a “next generation” waiting in the wings—whether they are family members, rising executives, or external leaders being groomed for succession. How they are nurtured, integrated, and ultimately empowered to lead shapes not only leadership transitions but the evolution of culture itself.

Family Business Governance: A Guide for Lasting Success

Learn how to build your business legacy with Egon Zehnder’s guide to family business governance. Our expert family business consultants provide tangible insights for lasting success.

Family Business Succession Planning Best Practices

Learn expert insight, tips, and best practices for developing your family business succession plan from the expert family planning consultants at Egon Zehnder.

Trust Issue

When it comes to wealth and ownership transitions, trust is too often in short supply. Egon Zehnder's Jason Hecker highlights the importance of transparency in succession planning.

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