Our Insights
A collection of our insights developed for you from our real-time client engagements, family business advice, solving their problems and delivering progress.
Is having a family mission important?
Your mission is your familyâs reason to exist.Letâs take a reverse scenario, just for fun and perhaps make the point come home:Why should we as family businesses bother about our mission, purpose and any such fluffy, softy, or simply an incompetent – Leaders do bother about such things because they have hard balls to play
Impact of communication on results leadership wants
Have you ever wondered, being an owner & leader of the organisation, why, when you have clarity of how to run a business, your people fall short? Did it occur to you that even after explaining tens of times to your leaders and managers, things happen in ways undesired and, many times, untoward? After months
Perspectives
What is perspective? Why it matters? Should it matter? What is perspective? Is it knowledge of some kind, or is it an insight? Reason to discuss perspectives: It’s just an amazingly crucial destiny-shaping thingâyour perspective. When clients ask me with pure curiosity, I choose to sit down before an answer when I am in my
Owners need to show compassion to themselves
It seems that owners in our country owe a lot to the world. Sometimes unfair share of owing to the world. Key is what the world expects from them? Does the world around assume that owners are supposed to deliver the unsaid expectations? Complicated as it sounds above, in reality it is far more complicated
An invitation for irrecoverable loss: A delayed succession planning
Why do family businesses in India suffer to the point of their extinction or irrecoverable deterioration when placing a rightful successor? Why do most UHNI and HNI families even accept a painful, heart-wrenching, and gut-wrenching experience, despite succession planning methods, processes, and transitions available to them? Too few family businesses admit to accepting the pain
What role does purpose play in leading family businesses?
Front-running family businesses know that no amount of wealth, goodwill, or anything helps when it comes to making decisions that change the course of their next ten decades. What helps is a deep sense of purpose. Purpose – A deep call in the family that reminds them why they exist beyond their known material reasons.
Stopping at 99%
It is not uncommon to see owners reach at 99% and take forever to cross the remaining 1% to make important decisions.âŻWonder Why? Sometimes the time distance between the owner’s position movement from 99% to 1% is forever stretched. Many asked us why we haven’t helped them cross the 1% faster than they were able
OwnershipâŻthinksâŻin money and leadershipâŻthinksâŻin time
Its rather funny and even grave when you notice that leading family businesses havenât yet formally decided (and if decided then acted) onâŻtimely succession. Why so? Why family-owned businessesâ stewards or the current generation legal ownership and operating command do not begin formal succession until they reach age tipping point or ailments or a combination