Family Enterprise Insights
Family enterprises face unique challenges as family relationships, ownership structures, and operating businesses evolve across generations. This collection of articles reflects Generation6’s research and advisory experience, exploring the frameworks and decisions that shape alignment, leadership, and continuity over time.
Explore Thought Leadership by Topic
FAMILY DEVELOPMENT & DYNAMICS
Family relationships shape how effectively governance and ownership systems function over time. These articles examine communication, cohesion, and generational transitions that influence alignment and continuity.
FAMILY & BUSINESS GOVERNANCE
Family enterprise governance defines how decisions are made, roles are clarified, and accountability is sustained across generations. These articles explore governance structures, boards, and frameworks that support alignment and long-term continuity.
FAMILY OFFICE & ENTERPRISE STRUCTURES
Family offices and enterprise structures sit at the intersection of family, ownership, and shared assets. These articles explore how structures are designed and evolve to support coordination, clarity, and long-term performance.
STEWARDSHIP & OWNERSHIP
Ownership in a family enterprise carries responsibilities that extend beyond financial interests. These articles explore ownership roles, decision-making, and the development of capable stewards across generations.
STRATEGY & DECISION-MAKING
Family enterprises face complex strategic and financial decisions shaped by both business realities and family priorities. These articles explore how families approach growth, investment, risk, and long-term decision-making.
ADVISORY APPROACH
Effective advisory in family enterprise requires both structural clarity and relational understanding. These articles reflect how Generation6 works with families, including our philosophy, partnership model, and perspectives on long-term continuity.
Our Recent Articles
Why Don't You Educate Your Owners?
Family firms that fail to educate their owners are putting their future in peril. In this article, we highlight where business families fall short in their ownership training and outline a simple process to identify the educational needs of your own family shareholder group.
'Let’s Not Go There...' Taboos in Family Business
Family businesses and the families that own them are known for their secrecy and discretion. This article lays out the most common taboos that arise in family businesses and describes strategies to diagnose and deal with them.
A question every leader should ponder
Every leader I coach struggles to find more white space - the time energy and space to reflect, to process, and to be available to what feelings and thoughts are beyond the immediate - in their life.
A Moment to Pause and Reflect
The unprecedented uncertainty in our world has made it more imperative that family enterprises commit to an ongoing practice to develop their capacity and their agility.
Understanding the business family | Part II
Why is it essential for a business family to understand the family dynamics at play when family members engage with one another?
Understanding the Business Family | Part I
Why is it essential for a business family to understand the family dynamics at play when family members engage with one another?
Family cohesion: Stick together to stay together
Cohesion is a key characteristic of long-lived enterprising families - and it has distinct facets that should be addressed simultaneously.
Let’s Continue the Conversation
Many of the topics explored in our articles arise directly from conversations with multigenerational families navigating complex transitions.
If your family is considering governance development, leadership transition, or strengthening alignment across generations, we welcome the opportunity to connect.