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
Money & Generations: Turning Financial Disputes into Connection
Families often pressure advisors to rush to provide a technical fix to their perceived money problems - but when families fight about money, it’s typically about something else.
Business Families Must Get Real About Growth and Payouts
Sometimes the family grows much faster than the business, especially in saturated markets. This has deep implications for how we manage family and business expectations.
What Makes For An Effective Family Constitution?
Many business families have a family constitution – but far fewer have one that truly guides behavior, and even fewer have one that strengthens alignment over time.
Want to understand your shareholder group? Ask them!
Are you curious about where your shareholder group stands—how knowledgeable and committed they are to the family enterprise, what values and personal goals they bring, and what concerns or expectations they may have?
When Growth Can't Keep Up: Why Business Families Must Rethink Financial Expectations
Sustaining a family enterprise is not just a question of profitability. It’s a question of alignment between the pace of family growth, the business’s true capacity, and the expectations placed on both.
Tariffs, turmoil, and family tiffs: navigating the current chaos as a family enterprise
This article provides actionable recommendations on how to support your business through the current economic uncertainty while maintaining family unity and commitment.
Drafting a Shareholder Agreement that Fits Your Family’s Needs
Shareholder agreements are among the most consequential governance tools in a family enterprise. However, few families have a shareholder agreement that truly supports them in becoming the ownership group they aspire to be.
Who Should Take Over When The CEO-Owner Of A Business Suddenly Dies
This research-based article highlights the critical role of choosing the right successor to ensure business survival after a sudden death tragedy.
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.