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.
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 thing—your perspective. When clients ask me with pure curiosity, I choose to sit down before an answer when I am in my work as a
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. Wonder 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
Ownership thinks in money and leadership thinks in time
Its rather funny and even grave when you notice that leading family businesses haven’t yet formally decided (and if decided then acted) on timely succession. Why so? Why family-owned businesses’ 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
Don’t wait for lows to make upgrades in your leadership. Make it a habit to continually transform your relationship with yourself.
Don’t wait for lows to make upgrades in your leadership. Make it a habit to continually transform your relationship with yourself.– in other words, your Leadership capacity. Let’s first debunk a few myths straight away that affect your Leadership directly: I will get wiser with age I will get experience with age I will get sharper
Get your business growing to new heights using leadership and not an ownership mindset
First, I would like to thank several business owners (Indian and global owners) who trusted us for making a critical transition in them – Moving from ownership thinking to leadership thinking, doing, and leading for results. To be an owner is challenging for sure. It takes incredible strength to pull the business as an owner. It takes grit