Reflections on FFI’s Global Conference: Evolving the Conversation

Evolving the Conversation: conversation is communication. And communication is essential to handling conflict well: keeping the good kind collaborative and creative and addressing the bad kind before it gets ugly.

One research-based presentation I attended was about understanding the very different perspectives that individuals in a family business may have in a nearly identical situation. And, how those individual perspectives will likely evolve through the passage of time and life events. Accepting, even welcoming, that change requires keeping the conversation going in the family enterprise. Not forcing permanent decisions, such as in or out of the business, early in adult life. 

Another presentation I attended with a strong research basis involved trust.  How does a family enterprise inspire trust? In its employees, customers, the general public. The big takeaway was that the world keeps changing and family firms who fail to change do so at their peril.

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