Talent & Leadership Development

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Navigating Life’s Fluxes: Exploring the Interfacing Life Cycles Model 

Over time, children grow up and expand the family, generational waves coexist, businesses are launched and mature, and industries emerge and decline. Despite its slow pace, change is the only constant.   As enterprising families navigate through various developmental stages and…

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Performance Metrics

Performance Metrics: Aligning Along the Journey, Beyond Just the Destination 

When it comes to achieving goals and measuring progress, most people typically anchor on the desired result without consistently establishing explicit alignment on the ways and means they will adopt to reach it.   Yet, deliberately defining how a vision is…

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Learning and development are vital to an enterprising family’s success

The chief learning and development office is a necessary part of the family’s C-suite Mark Auger for Canadian Family Offices The expressions “people are our most important asset” and “putting people at the forefront for sustainable organizational success” are heard…

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Is family governance much ado about nothing?

Is family governance much ado about nothing?

Governance conjures up images of government and country, or even board of directors and publicly-listed corporations. For many of us, automatically linking a governing body to family is not clear cut. However, for significant and long-lived enterprising families faced with evolving organizational complexity, family governance becomes a necessity for their longevity and prosperity. Family governance without strategic family leadership foretells eventual impairment of family wealth and relationships.

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