Family Communication

There are few tests to measure family health, let alone family legacy. So I’ve made my first attempt at creating a family…

Has your spouse or a family member ever said  to you, “What do I do when you’re gone? Who do I call?…

Addressing conflict in the family is one of the first steps on the journey to family legacy. To succeed in navigating conflict,…

A study on leaving a legacy found most people evaluate a life well lived in terms of loving relationships and social impact…

Sometimes we hear of those with wealth and it’s hard to imagine them making a mistake. But Simone Foxman of Bloomberg surveyed family…

A 2016 WealthCounsel survey on estate planning offers some interesting insights on why Americans don’t complete their estate planning. Forty-three percent of Americans don’t have…

Fair warning:  you’ll want to read to the end of this post for the punchline. I’ve always loved the stories of the…

Steelcase, the office furniture maker based in Michigan turned 100 years old recently. The feat of surviving 100 years in this age…

Did you know that the average lifecycle of corporations is 12-15 years, whereas in the 1920s, the average lifecycle was 67 years? …

Can a family last 100 years? A few years ago, Inc. Magazine ran an article titled: “How to Build a Company that…

Exercise of poor character can’t be blamed on personality. In this three-part series (here’s Part I and Part II), I’ve been discussing the…

In my last blog, the first in a three-part series, I spoke about the single worst question in family legacy: Why can’t…