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Navigating Adversity with Intentional Responses

Dealing with adversity is an inevitable part of daily life; whether it stems from work, school, relationship demands, or dynamics, people can feel pressured when they feel compelled to meet expectations, standards, or specific outcomes. While a healthy level of…

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Cultivating Legacy: Strengthening Family Wealth Through Trust and Governance

This is a revised reproduction of the article published on August 4, 2024 in Grayhawk Wealth Sunday Reads All parents strive to raise independent, motivated, and responsible children. In enterprising families, the complexities of intersections between family, business, ownership and…

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Thriving Under Pressure: Unpacking How Stress Affects Us 

An Introduction to the Normal-Pressure Continuum Have you ever noticed how some days everything seems to flow effortlessly, while at other times you keep trying without getting it right? It’s at those times that pressure weighs you down, affecting your…

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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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Finding the Balance Between Honouring the Past and Building for the Future

Intergenerational transitions are significant life events that hold the key to sustained prosperity within enterprising families. These transitions not only provide the opportunity for stewardship to flourish, but also empowers successive generations to enrich and extend the legacy of their predecessors.  

In our constantly evolving world, stewardship transcends caretaking.

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Three Approaches to Prepare for Communicating Under Pressure 

Engaging in difficult conversations is an inherent aspect of most family interactions. Some families may avoid difficult conversations all together. By doing so, they potentially deprive family members from accessing a variety of perspectives and ideas that can help gain a better understanding of the issue at stake.  

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What ‘hat’ are you wearing?: 

Using the ‘hats/rooms’ framework to enhance communication in enterprising families For enterprising families with a multi-generational mindset, communication can become complex as members handle diverse roles and situations within their own family. In such cases, the ‘hats/rooms’ concept proves to…

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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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