The Aspen Family Business Group Presents 2024 Family Business Retreat A Multi-family Gathering | June 20–23, 2024 | Hood River, OR Download PDF Brochure In-person. Interactive. Peer-networking.  In beautiful Hood River, Oregon, you will learn about communication, connection and collaboration, and how to outperform your competition. Our program is designed to help your Family Enterprise be more collaborative and strategic in today’s fast-paced business world. Gain tools and skills, including how to integrate AI, to work more effectively within your family and your business. Strengthen you ..read more

The Thickness of Blood in Family Business – PART 3 “The Dinner Party Changed Everything.” [addthis tool=”addthis_inline_share_toolbox”] This is part three of this three part series. It comes from a single essay. If you would like to go directly to the whole essay, please click here. ABSTRACT In this essay I am creating a terminology by which to illuminate the inclusion of non-family persons in the family business. The terms included are blood, water, wine, miracle and blessing. In family business we often stand at crossroads. In these moments we seek guidance which, broadly speaking, comes ..read more

The Thickness of Blood in Family Business – PART 2 “Doing Business at the Wedding.” [addthis tool=”addthis_inline_share_toolbox”] This is part two of this three part series. It comes from a single essay. If you would like to go directly to the whole essay, please click here. ABSTRACT In this essay I am creating a terminology by which to illuminate the inclusion of non-family persons in the family business. The terms included are blood, water, wine, miracle and blessing. In family business we often stand at crossroads. In these moments we seek guidance which, broadly speaking, comes from re ..read more

The Thickness of Blood in Family Business – PART 1 “Everyone gets it but the CEO.” [addthis tool=”addthis_inline_share_toolbox”] This blog is being posted in three parts. It comes from a single essay. If you would like to go directly to the whole essay, please click here. ABSTRACT In this essay I am creating a terminology by which to illuminate the inclusion of non-family persons in the family business.  The terms included are blood, water, wine, miracle and blessing. In family business we often stand at crossroads.  In these moments we seek guidance which, broadly speaking, come ..read more

[addthis tool=”addthis_inline_share_toolbox”] BEST PRACTICES OF FAMILIES IN BUSINESS: PART 1 In the Aspen Family Business Group’s September 2020 Current Thinking column, I revisited the seven Principles for Success that the Aspen Group partners lay out in the concluding section of their book, the Keys to Family Business Success. In that same concluding section the authors offer eleven Best Practices for Families in Business. Associate Jonathan Magidovitch and I will revisit these Best Practices in a three-part series to welcome us into 2021. As mentioned in that previous column, now is a ..read more

The Thickness of Blood in Family Business – PART 2 “Doing Business at the Wedding.” This is part two of this three part series. It comes from a single essay. If you would like to go directly to the whole essay, please click here. ABSTRACT In this essay I am creating a terminology by which to illuminate the inclusion of non-family persons in the family business. The terms included are blood, water, wine, miracle and blessing. In family business we often stand at crossroads. In these moments we seek guidance which, broadly speaking, comes from realms of the spiritual and of the empirical. Here ..read more

The Thickness of Blood in Family Business – PART 3 “The Dinner Party Changed Everything.” This is part three of this three part series. It comes from a single essay. If you would like to go directly to the whole essay, please click here. ABSTRACT In this essay I am creating a terminology by which to illuminate the inclusion of non-family persons in the family business. The terms included are blood, water, wine, miracle and blessing. In family business we often stand at crossroads. In these moments we seek guidance which, broadly speaking, comes from realms of the spiritual and of the empiric ..read more

BEST PRACTICES OF FAMILIES IN BUSINESS: PART 3 In Best Practices of Families in Business: Part 1 & Part 2 of this series Aspen Associates Shelley Taylor and Jonathan Magidovitch review Best Practices for Family Business. They revisit the tried and true foundations of family business, then current management practices and here, in part three, they guide family business members to look to the future with key points on planning for Catastrophe, for Business Succession and for Ownership Succession. Catastrophe planning Do you have a plan for who would run the company if the leader died ..read more

The Thickness of Blood in Family Business – PART 1 “Everyone gets it but the CEO.” This blog is being posted in three parts. It comes from a single essay. If you would like to go directly to the whole essay, please click here. ABSTRACT In this essay I am creating a terminology by which to illuminate the inclusion of non-family persons in the family business.  The terms included are blood, water, wine, miracle and blessing. In family business we often stand at crossroads.  In these moments we seek guidance which, broadly speaking, comes from realms of the spiritual and of the empiri ..read more

This column is part 2 in our series on ‘The New Normal‘. In the series of postings over the next few months, we’ll be sharing enduring practices and values that keep us directed in times of upheaval. If you haven’t already, you should read part 1 of the series called “The New Normal“.  Watch the short introduction video on the return to fundamentals by Shelley Taylor. Principles Of Success In Family Businesses: A Return To Fundamentals We are currently living in a pandemic that is not going away any time soon; the reality of systemic racism has been brought to the fore and can no ..read more