- A
- Abacus, mastery, 39
- Accountability (family quality/value), 218–219
- Action Plan, example, 358f
- Active plans, usage, 71
- Active task force, development, 356
- Acumen, 164
- Adams, John, 286
- Adaptation, cycle, 108f
- Adversity, experience, 303
- Advisors, tools, 357
- Advisory board, formation, 195
- Age-appropriate work, usage, 304
- Agency, problems (defining), 48
- Apprenticeship, 332
- Aspirational governance, 31
- Assets
- family portfolio, commitment, 71
- sales, 93
- At-large election, 247–248
- B
- BCCI, default, 45–46
- Behavior
- Bellow, Adam, 37
- Berman, Melissa A., 54
- Board of directors
- appointment, 268
- change, 317–318
- composition, 321–322
- definition, 15
- design, 186–197
- development
- engagement, 178
- evolution, 187–190
- formation, 192–197
- independent board directors, prevalence, 188f
- junior boards, 310, 323–324
- makeup, 268
- members
- quality, 198
- service, 328
- Branch identity, importance (decline), 192
- Brundtland Commission
- global compact creation, 153
- sustainable development goals, 155–156
- Buddenbrooks (Mann), 41
- Business. See Legacy business; Small business
- assets, liquidation, 94
- briefings, 310, 315–318
- business-first orientation, 22
- core competencies, development, 142
- culture, shift, 141
- defining, constitution (impact), 260–261
- discipline, 127–137
- diversification, 99–102
- education, 300
- effectiveness, 114
- employment, 332
- events, 312
- evolution, 101
- expertise, business effectiveness, 114
- founders, secrecy, 134
- governance, 179
- family governance, linking, 227–228
- structures, 190–191
- growth, occurrence, 32
- impact, 277
- innovation/adaptation, sustaining (factors), 89–91
- leadership
- class, G4 family creation, 316
- focus, 301
- G5 entry, 327–328
- legacy business, 16, 33, 76
- long-term ownership, commitment, 94
- maturation, increase, 88
- meetings, 294
- mission, 267
- model, adaptation, 159–160
- operation, family shift, 334–335
- ownership, 13f, 217
- portfolio, 102
- professional business, tribal family (contrast), 223f
- professionalization, 129
- renewal, 73–81
- resiliency, 87
- review, 206
- revitalization, G3 shift, 73
- sale, 64
- strategic plan, 265
- success, 88
- occurrence, 33
- strategies, 116–118
- sustaining, 71
- tradition, 83–84
- transformation, 76, 87
- transition, 220–221
- values, 267
- virtuous circle, 19
- Business family
- boundaries, 79, 241
- definition, 16
- independence, 76
- interconnection, organization, 215
- interest, maintenance, 353
- member entry, discouragement, 327
- member involvement, 257
- relationship, 268
- success, 355
- values, extension, 124–127
- values, long-term commitment/extension, 121–127
- Business/financial success, long-term family enterprise criteria, 10
- C
- Cadbury, Adrian, 45–46, 179
- Cadbury family, social responsibility (emergence), 44–46
- Cadbury, John, 44–45
- Cadbury model, 49
- Cadbury Report, 46
- Candidate (capability/sustainability), family assessment, 138
- Capability, 305
- assessment, 306
- development, 253
- Capital. See Legacy
- infusion, need, 93
- measurement, 359–360
- Career
- aid, 327
- development, 310, 319–322
- family meeting focus, 321
- selection/preparation, 320
- Caring, desired capability, 305
- Carnegie, Andrew, 52, 337
- CBRE, 170
- Centennial families, dialogue/leadership opportunities, 166
- Chandler, Alfred, 48–49
- Change
- adaptation, 70–73
- culture, support, 245
- generative families (response), three-phase resilience cycle (impact), 107
- Changeability, desired capability, 305
- Character
- desired capability, 305
- parenting/developing, 290–296
- Charitable endeavor, family foundation,
- Charter
- family values, 263
- second generation creation, 271
- usage, 271
- Chief executive officer (CEO), role, 137
- Children
- elder assistance, 321
- parent, influence, 291–292
- values, transmission, 292
- Clans, appearance, 36
- Climate, elder creation, 325
- Coach, finding, 306
- Code of Behavior, design, 274–275
- Code of conduct. See Families
- communication/behavior, 273–275
- Collaborating siblings, 64–68
- Collaboration
- desired capability, 305
- learning, 66–67
- Collective harmony, 38
- Colli, Andrea, 55
- Coloroll, collapse, 45–46
- Comfort zone, 254
- Commitment, 279
- Common sense, usage, 39
- Communication
- desired capability, 305
- digital platforms/technology, rise, 55
- family quality/value, 218
- importance, value, 274
- respect/encouragement, 273–275
- Community
- building, 206
- commitment, 27
- creation, 272
- cross-generational community meetings, 310–315
- desired capability, 305
- development, foundation (impact), 348–349
- extended family community, creation, 201
- family, impact, 249
- fifth generation commitment, 127
- good, 253
- leadership focus, 301
- money, impact/usage, 39
- service, 272, 325, 334–335
- Company
- going public, 266
- legacy companies, 81–84
- ownership, 76
- town, paternalistic industrialization, 35, 44
- Competence
- desired capability, 305
- development, 253
- Competency (family quality/value), 218–219
- Competition, advantage, 38
- Compromise, desired capability, 305
- Conflict
- appearance, 274
- eruption, 131
- management, 278–279
- resolution, 253
- Confucian ethic, 38
- Conglomerate, diversification, 101
- Connectedness, increase, 55
- Connections, desired capability, 305
- Conservative governance, 31
- Constitution, 259. See also Family constitution
- amalgam, 269
- creation, family member functions, 261
- drafting, 263–264, 271
- elements, 265–267
- framework, writing, 264
- impact, 260–261
- legal documents, contrast, 262
- operating manual, comparison, 264–265
- writing, 269–270
- Continual cross-generational value creation, –10
- Cooperation, learning, 66–67
- Core competencies, business development, 142
- Core family values, passing, 339
- Core purpose, 25
- Corporate social responsibility (CSR), 154, 157–158, 160, 175
- Corporate sustainability, 154
- Corporation, portal maintenance, 265
- Councils. See Family councils
- council of elders, job, 267
- Counterculture, famliy establishment, 292–293
- Cousins, values/interests (orientation), 69
- Craftsmanship, skills (deepening), 132
- Craftsmen
- action, 118
- business success strategies, 116–118
- elements, 127–137
- path, 119, 141
- skills, 128
- Creativity, desired capability, 305
- Credibility, development, 306
- Crisis, survival, 88–89
- Cross-generational activity, features, 209
- Cross-generational community meetings, 310–315
- Cross-generational dialogue
- conducting, 212
- emergence, 152
- Cross-generational engagement
- older/younger generations, role, 208–211
- support, 25
- Cross-generational family meeting, convening, 355
- Cross-generational learning community, family (relationship), 309
- Crossroads commerce, 114–116
- Culture
- counterculture, family establishment, 292–293
- creation, generative alliance (impact), 121
- extension, 128
- harmony culture, 41
- honor culture, 41
- maintenance, 94
- proverb,
- values-based culture, building/sustaining, 113
- Curiosity, desired capability, 305
- Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation, example, 346–347
- D
- Decisions (guidance), governance policies/structures (usage), 26
- DEI. See Diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Desert Storm, family interaction, 342
- Development
- Digital platforms, rise, 55
- Disagreements, avoidance, 278
- Divergent social systems, example, 21–22
- Diversification, 110
- avoidance, 39
- generative family transformation path, 91
- Diversified enterprises, components, 75
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), 343
- Donors, experience, 344
- Drinking, temperance, 39
- Dual family councils, account, 242
- Dual foundation structure, adoption, 168
- Dumas, Axel, 158
- Duty of candor, 187
- Duty of care, 187
- Duty of loyalty, 187
- Duty of obedience, 187
- Dynastic family, definition, 15
- E
- Educational goals, 338–340
- Educational programs, 303–305
- Education, investment, 163
- Education program, investment, 322
- Elders, 208–210
- activities, 209f
- confidentiality, 135
- generation, dialogue, 212
- leadership, active engagement (combination), 316
- legacy letter/statement, usage, 267
- second-generation elder, work/vision, 303
- stakeholder group, 119
- Eldest son, ascension (expectation), 326
- Emotional intelligence (EQ), 330
- Emotion, embracing, 318
- Employees
- fifth generation commitment, 127
- impact, 138–139
- service, 328
- treatment/warmth, 39
- work, 316
- Employee stock ownership programs (ESOPs), 100
- Energy, commitment, 97
- Engage/decide (resilience cycle), 107
- Engaged owners, “tribal” family/community, 75
- Enterprise. See Family enterprise
- Enterprising family, definition, 16
- Entities, types, 75
- Entitlement, 290–291
- Entrepreneurialism, conservatism (dialogue), 144
- Entrepreneurial talent, family member development, 146–147
- Entrepreneurs, self-made style, 63
- Excellence, pursuit, 272
- Exit policy, 97
- Experiences, sharing, 350
- Explicit values, 75
- Extended family
- activities, 310–324
- community, creation, 201
- focus,
- formation, prehistory, 35, 36–37
- relationships, building, 310
- transition, complexities, 69
- tribe, creation, 202
- Exxon, environmental record, 53–54
- F
- Families. See Legacy
- academy, 318–319
- accounts, 251–252
- activities
- development, 318–319
- extension, 310–324
- successor questioning, 71
- adaptation/innovation/change, 25
- advantages, reemergence, 54–56
- ambassadors, 314
- appearance, context (defining), 261
- assembly, 72, 205–208, 224, 268
- definition, 16
- mission/organization/responsibilities, 268
- assets
- informed owner, 286
- ownership,
- board of directors
- development trajectory, 188–189
- members, appointment responsibility, 194
- branches, challenges, 311
- building block, 312
- challenges, constitution (evolution), 269–270
- champion, 210–211
- change, resistance, 89
- characteristics, 15f
- charitable foundation, establishment, 336
- citizen, value/governance commitment, 286
- code of conduct, 267
- communities, appearance, 36
- competition, 139
- conflict, 109, 252
- conglomerates
- example, –7
- governance, 244–246
- connection (sustaining), legacy business (role), 94–95
- connectivity, increase, 345
- constitutional convention, convening, 280–281
- control, passage, 312
- conversations, 234
- evolution, 329
- holding, 255–257
- cooperation (family value), 272
- core values, passing, 339
- cross-generational family meeting, convening, 355
- cross-generational learning community, relationship, 309
- culture, 114
- defining, constitution (impact), 260–261, 261f
- support elements, 122f
- deal, defining, 306–307
- definition, 15
- description, 12–15
- development
- differences, 206
- difficulties, anticipation, 70
- dynasties, social history, 35
- educational activities, arrangement, 239
- education, family commitment, 316
- education, support, 11
- elders
- champion, 311
- learning/expectations, sharing, 280
- engagement, transparency path, 184–185
- expectations, 268
- extended family community, creation, 201
- family-first orientation, 22
- family-supported philanthropic/community ventures, 326
- finances, information access (problem), 70
- formal rituals, 313
- fortunes, accumulation/sustaining, 35, 40–44
- foundation, 76
- responsibility level, 343
- funding/support, 268
- G3 members
- behavior, redefining, 71
- direction, self-defining, 72–73
- number, increase, 69
- gathering, organization, 239
- generations, connection (creation), 249
- giving, decisions, 268
- global representation, 13f
- glue, creation, 313–314
- goals, 276
- greatness, creation, 19
- harmony, striving, 38
- hiring messages, crafting, 141
- history, 253
- identity, centers, 103–109
- independent board, 312
- infrastructure, 288
- inheritors, information, 217
- involvement, 139
- journey, story, 84–85
- leaders, 286, 295
- leadership, 33
- professionalization, 138–141
- project, facets, 286–287
- service, 329–330
- leadership focus, 301
- learning, 314
- lives, support, 93
- long-term vision, 123
- meetings
- career development focus, 321
- conflict/stress, 317
- interactive nature, 317
- mission, 267
- statement, development, 356
- nonprofit organization, comparison, 329–330
- nurturing, 235
- office, 52, 191
- board of directors, service, 328
- generative families, percentage, 103f
- governance centers, 103–109
- percentages, increase, 104f
- organization, impact, 75
- origins/history, 267
- owner-operator, shift, 76
- owners (rising generations), capability (development), 71
- participation, increase, 344
- patriarch, example, 294
- personal stamp, 125
- philanthropy, 333
- portfolio, entrepreneurial mindset (adoption), 102
- practices, generational examination, 227t
- privilege, bubble (exit), 306
- questions, 69
- reengagement, 73–81
- relationship manager, 140, 141
- relations, maintenance, 278
- reorganization, 55
- research, 354–355
- resources, 334
- respect, 334
- reunion, biannual occurrence, 39
- role, expectations, 322
- sale, impact, 95
- self-assessment, 355–356
- service, 324–332
- shared values/purpose, 275–279
- social events, 83
- social ventures, service, 328
- solidarity, Rothschild model, 43
- story/history, awareness, 205
- succession, matriarch control, 64
- system, values (maintenance), 273
- talent
- development, 90
- development/recruitment, family quality/value, 218
- third-generation family leader, business redefinition, 88
- tools, 357
- tradition, 83–84
- transformations, management, 110
- transparency, evaluation, 141
- tree, pruning, 97–99
- tribe, 201
- triggers, 88
- ventures, control, 179–180
- vetting, issues, 138–139
- virtuous circle, 19
- visibility, 334
- vision, 267
- development, 356
- development process, 206
- sustaining, 353
- voice, unification, 218
- wealth
- generation, 355
- impact, 289, 334
- natives, 287
- presence, 21
- promise, fulfillment, 27–29
- responsibility, 326
- work, conducting, 237
- Familiness, 347
- Family Balance Sheet, 359–360
- Family business, 181–182
- boundary, management, 80
- defining quality,
- eclipse, 48–50
- generational decline, 32
- independence, 76
- information access, problem, 70
- interconnection, organization, 215
- links, 253
- maintenance, success, 353
- modern era entry, 50–52
- myths, challenge, 32–33
- relationship, example, 21–22
- sale, 55
- Family Business Network (FBN), 155
- Family capital, 216, 301
- assessment, 34
- impact, 27–29
- types, 27f
- Family constitution, 224, 259
- core purpose, 267
- creation, 272–273
- definition, 16
- family enterprise organization/policies, 267–268
- governance, 268
- impact, process, 263–265
- legal structures, 268
- mission/values, action, 270–271
- movement, 261f
- outline, 267–268
- philanthropy, 268
- shareholders, roles, 268
- signing, 270
- social mission, 268
- writing, 269–270
- Family Conversation, 234
- Family councils, 191, 237
- activities, 252–253, 268
- building, 246–253
- charter, 250
- creation, 82, 237–238
- definition, 16
- development, 71
- election, 263
- emergence, 239–244
- evolution, 242
- expectations, creation, 254–255
- format/expectations, clarification, 255
- function, 232
- future, plan, 253
- goal, 254
- information, gathering, 255
- meetings
- design, 254–255
- frequency, 246f
- holding, agreement, 254
- membership, 268
- members, selection, 246–249
- mission, 249–250, 268
- operating principles, 250–251
- organization, 249, 268
- origination, 242–243
- parallelism, 227
- participants, invitation, 255
- participation, 312
- prevalence, 238f
- purpose, 254, 268
- responsibilities, 268
- safe environment, creation, 255
- statement of purpose, usage, 265
- task force, assembly, 264
- values, 249–250
- young leader report, 319
- Family enterprise. See Generative family enterprise
- action, 279, 305, 332, 349, 355
- best practices, assessment, 234
- calls, 325
- capital measurement, 359–360
- core, 20–21
- culture
- change, 70
- creation, generative alliance (impact), 121
- defining, –6
- definition, 16
- description, 289
- economic/social future, 351
- education, paths/activities (defining), 332
- effectiveness/profitability, contrast, 51
- employment pathway, 329
- entry, choice (freedom), 272
- evolution, 59, 92f
- family culture support, elements, 122f
- future, 256–257
- generational characteristics, 74t
- generations, 61
- global instability refuge, 352–353
- holding company, usage,
- impact,
- joining, choice, 325–328
- mistakes, 107
- models, emergence, 55
- nonbusiness entities, 14f
- organization/policies, 267–268
- pitfalls, 108–109
- research. See Long-term family enterprises.
- process, explanation, 10–12
- stewarding, 235
- success,
- timeline, 110–111
- time line/journey, 111
- transparency, responsibility, 185–186
- visits, 332
- Family enterprise action, 33, 109, 197–198
- casting, 112
- cross-generational dialogue, conducting, 211
- culture assessment, 148–149
- family enterprise best practices, assessment, 234
- family journey, storytelling, 84–84
- family legacy, celebration, 211–212
- family meeting, holding, 253–255
- resiliency, 111
- transitions, facing, 110–111
- Family Enterprise Assessment Tool (FEAT), 357–359
- Family governance, 31, 181, 199, 215
- building blocks, 222–226
- business governance
- linking, 227–228
- weaving, 229–233
- business pillar, 105–106
- elements, 225f
- embedding, 221–222
- entities, overview, 228–229
- formalization, 210–211
- ownership governance, linking, 227–228
- participation, 286
- policies/procedures, design, 266
- purpose, 216–218
- shared family governance, igniting, 219–221
- structure, 228f
- triggers, 220f
- values, 218–219
- Family legacy, 276
- business
- continuation, 138
- harvesting, transformative effects, 93
- business, absence, 287
- celebration, 211–212
- history, 253
- reclamation, 203–204
- sharing, 295–296
- Family members
- business entry, discouraging, 327
- business involvement, 257
- cash out, 93
- conflict, 136–137
- elders, 208–210
- employment, policies, 268
- functions, 261
- harmony/unity (promotion), Code of Behavior (design), 274–275
- human capital, development, 249
- initiator/driver, emergence, 311
- owner role, 76
- personal relationships, 76
- placement, employees (impact), 138–139
- preference, 124
- purpose, 275
- reliance, 302
- responsibilities, 97
- shares, sale, 88
- time/work, 97
- togetherness, 239
- voice, 252
- young family member
- developmental path, 288–300
- public perception, 293
- Family of affinity, 23, 125, 224
- becoming, 97–99
- definition, 16
- Family Sustainability Team, 320
- Family values, 206, 263, 267, 276
- commitment, 121–127, 286
- defining, 357
- development, 356
- extension, 121
- role, emphasis, 271
- sharing, 292
- statements, 39, 271–272
- sustaining, 353
- usage, 291–292
- FEAT. See Family Enterprise Assessment Tool
- Fifth generation (G5)
- business entry, 327–328
- choice, 83
- company, two-board structure, 190–191
- employee/community, commitment, 127
- European conglomerate, impact, 101
- generative family, impact, 247
- heir, office management/supervision, 221
- involvement, 229
- member benefits, 116
- members, filming, 172
- mentoring, 136
- shareholder reduction, example, 99
- succession process, 139
- US business, ownership, 331
- values, remembering, 158
- working consensus, 322
- Fifth-generation family
- engagement pathways, 312
- entry, 52
- health care sector expertise, 163
- heirs, lifestyle supplement, 289
- leader
- community service project, 171
- impact, 142
- legacy values, viewpoint, 125
- members, values/purpose, 275
- mission, 275
- observations, 318
- Filial lines, 141
- Finances, tracking, 39
- Financial briefings, 310, 315–318
- Financial capital, 28
- Financial-Education Capital, components, 360
- Financial literacy (successor value), 295
- Financiers, family fortunes (accumulating/sustaining), 35, 40–44
- Fink, Larry, 153
- First generation (G1)
- business families, positioning, 12
- business founder, improvisational leader (presence), 128
- business growth, occurrence, 32
- conflicts, 72–73
- constitution, elements, 265
- entrepreneur, achievement, 32
- family
- board of director composition, 321–322
- business, example, 160
- leaders, hands-on business owner/operators, 178
- matriarch, legacy work, 217–218
- mega-philanthropists, generative families (difference), 338
- members, composition, 61
- members, foundation, 109
- perspectives/histories, divergence, 63
- success, 23
- wealth creators, description, 63
- Ford, Edsel, 48–49
- Ford, Henry, 48
- Ford II, Henry, 48–49
- Formal governance process, 315
- Formal mentoring, 320
- For-profit ventures, boundary, 162
- Foundation, 191. See also Families
- dual foundation structure, adoption, 168
- impact, 348–349
- remembering, 38
- values, example, 346–347
- Founding generation, values, 295
- Fourth generation (G4), , 14
- age, attainment, 319
- branch identity, importance (decline), 192
- business
- process, overhaul, 192
- report, example, 142
- children, knowledge, 312
- co-leaders, presence, 143
- daughter, observations, 134
- deals, business entry, 229–230
- emergence, 116
- entry, 74–75
- European family, lesson, 22
- experience, 76
- foundation, 169
- governance involvement, 157
- innovations, 115
- issues, 101
- leaders
- number, reduction, 190
- retirement, 80
- members
- distribution interest, 265
- goal, 311
- movement, 105
- opportunities, creation, 319
- ownership transfers, 277
- patriarch, passing, 147
- relationships, 76–77
- shared wealth, 31
- transition, 78
- vocal members, challenge, 53
- wealth, 84
- wisdom, generation, 106
- Fourth-generation family
- ambassadors, 314
- business leadership class creation, 316
- conglomerate, gaps (occurrence), 135
- constitution, creation, 272–273
- dual family councils, account, 242
- elder, impact, 211
- enterprises, size, 244
- growth committee, creation, 145
- heirs, lifestyle supplement, 289
- impact, 247
- investment group, creation, 144–145
- leader, perspective, 322
- leadership, transition, 128
- members
- hiring, 139
- values/purpose, 275
- mission, 275
- ownership continuation, 74
- size, 250
- Friedman, Milton, 152
- Friendships, development, 317
- Frugality (successor value), 295
- Future, global context, 351–352
- G
- G4 members, identity (redefinition), 95–96
- Gains, treatment, 38
- Gates, Bill, 337
- Generational aging/transition, impact, 290
- Generational transitions
- impact, 88
- interviews/questions, 11
- Generations
- adaptability, long-term family enterprise criteria, 10
- connection, creation, 249
- older/younger generations, role, 208–211
- problems, 343–344
- Generative alliance, 113, 118–121
- Generative alliance, definition, 16
- Generative families
- business/wealth creation, 305
- continual cross-generational value creation, –10
- definition, 16
- development arc, 114–116
- direction, 233
- evolution, 61
- experience, 32
- family talent development, 90
- financial resources, 19
- first-generation mega-philanthropists, difference, 338
- first/second generation members foundation, 109
- future, 353–354
- governing document, 259
- impact, 287
- membership offering, 324
- multigenerational endeavor, 62
- nonfamily CEOs, presence, 328
- parents, impact, 305
- percentage, 103f
- policies/activities, creation, 183–184
- qualities, 26f
- recurrence, 339
- resilience, 114
- stock, classes, 192
- struggles, 163
- success, 333–334
- transformations, 91–92
- values
- expression, 167
- statements, 272
- wisdom,
- Generative family enterprise
- core qualities, 25–27
- evolution, 91
- parallel organizations, 30–32
- Generative governance, 31
- Generativity, 301
- achievement, practices, 353
- Generosity (successor value), 295
- Gilded Age (New World), 46–48
- Gilded ghetto, 298
- Giving circles, 340–342
- Giving Pledge, 346
- Global commerce, family enterprise (impact),
- Global company, example, 318–319
- Global giving, place-based giving (contrast), 337–338
- Global instability, family enterprise refuge, 352–353
- Globalization, 55
- Global Philanthropists Circle (GPC), 341
- Goals
- achievement, patience, 121
- failure, 345–346
- setting, 356
- God, honoring, 272
- Golden goose, production (cessation), 291
- Golden Rule, 276
- Goldseker, Sharna, 153–154
- Goods, moving (cost reduction), 55
- Goto, 37–38
- Governance, 198, 215. See also Family governance
- boards, creation, 191
- centers, 103–109
- committees, service, 328
- creation, absence, 263
- definition, 16
- development, 215–216
- formal governance process, 315
- fourth generation, involvement, 157
- initiation, 67–68
- involvement, 330–331
- knowledge/skills requirement, 345
- participation, 322
- platform, 30–31
- policies/structures, impact, 26
- practices, prevalence (increase), 226–227
- process, 217
- reference, 67
- structures, 190–191
- time/energy, commitment, 97
- usage, 344
- Governing document, 259
- Grameen Foundation, 164
- Grandparents
- camp, origination, 312
- opportunities, 295–296
- project, 312
- Gratitude, benefits, 335
- Great family
- becoming, 25
- creation, 19
- family enterprise core, 20–21
- Green buildings, focus, 170
- Grounding, 103–109, 110
- generative family transformation path, 91
- Growald, Eileen Rockefeller, 53–54
- Growth committee, creation, 145
- Grubman, James, 63, 287
- Guide, finding, 306
- H
- Harmony culture, 41
- Harvesting, 110
- generative family transformation path, 91
- legacy business, 92–99
- Haymarket Foundation, 340
- Heirs
- developmental journey, 298f
- lifestyle supplement, 289
- Henokiens Association, 43–44
- Hero's journey, 299
- Hidden champions, 35, 50–52
- Histories, activities, 212
- Holding company, usage,
- Honor culture, 41
- Households
- definition, 16
- related households, community, 68–73
- House of Rothschilds, 41–42
- Human capital, 28, 331
- Humility, impact, 276
- Hybrid family/business social system, 23–24
- I
- Idea bin, 327
- Identifying generations, definition, 17
- Identity, development, 297–300
- Inclusiveness (family quality/value), 218
- Independence ethic, family development, 81
- Independent board directors, prevalence, 188f
- Individual identity (search), philanthropy (usage), 340–342
- Individual, potential/capability, 287
- Individual support, 356
- Informal mentoring, 320
- Inheritance conversation, 256
- Inheritor, qualities, 285–286
- Innovation, 117
- family innovation, 25
- fund, 147–148
- opportunistic innovation, 114
- In Praise of Nepotism (Bellow), 37
- Integrity (family value), 272
- Intention, reality (gap), 135
- Interconnected paths, generative alliance, 118–121
- Intergenerational activities, features, 311
- “Intergenerational Dialogue,” 54
- Intergenerational wealth, accumulation, 47
- Internship, 332
- Interviews, activities, 211
- Investment management committee, presence, 104
- Investment resources, 92
- J
- Job, acceptance, 39
- Junior boards, 310, 323–324
- L
- Leaders, 291–292
- attraction process, 128
- improvisational leader, presence, 128
- selection, 326
- Leadership
- candidate, absence, 131
- capability, development, 304
- entry, 128
- position, 344
- preparation, focus, 301
- roles
- family enterprise aspect, 326
- roles, responsibility, 317–318
- Learning organizations, 108
- Le Breton-Miller, Danny/Isabelle, 51
- Legacy, 276. See also Family legacy
- alliance, 118
- capital, 28
- companies, 81–84
- craftsmen/opportunists, relationship, 120t
- elements, 121–127
- factory, usage, 159–160
- families, business/family boundary/separation, 331
- family, definition, 16
- identity, sustaining, 204–205
- letter/statement, usage, 267
- letters/videos, 280
- letters, writing, 272
- values, 114
- Legacy business, 12
- absence, 287
- definition, 16
- generative family ownership, 100
- harvesting, 92–99
- transformative effects, 93
- role, 94–95
- sale, 33, 92
- sale, G4 redefinition, 95–96
- transformation, 76
- Legacy Capital, components, 360
- Legal documents
- elaboration, 261–263
- meaning/relevance, 280
- review/update, 261
- Lescent-Giles, Isabelle, 333
- Liang, Jenna, 341
- Life
- choices, making, 326
- task, value, 285
- Lifestyle supplement, 289
- Liquidity
- event, 99
- opportunities, 92–99
- Listening, usage, 39
- Living generation, inspiration, 334–335
- Local mayor, office (accountability), 348
- Long-term business resiliency/growth/development, 26
- Long-term commitment, 121–124
- Long-term decisions, 123
- Long-term family enterprises
- criteria, 10–11
- research,
- Long-term horizon, 123
- Long-term investments, income, 97
- Lorenz, Katherine, 346
- Losses, treatment, 38
- Luxury, avoidance, 38
- M
- Management
- positions, family restrictions, 330–331
- responsibility, 277
- Managerial capitalism, 35, 48–50
- Managers, attraction process, 128
- Managing directors, impact, 192–193
- Mann, Thomas, 41
- Manufacturing, digital platforms/technology (ris), 55
- Marcus, George, 47
- Materialism, challenge, 292–293
- Matriarchs, description, 210
- Maxwell, Robert, 45–46
- Medici family, example, 40–41
- Membership, impact, 331
- Mentor, finding, 306
- Mentoring, 310, 319–322, 332
- informal/formal mentoring, 320
- Merlin, Leroy, 165
- Messages, passage, 291
- Mission. See Family councils
- action, 270–271
- defining, 272
- formulation, 249
- statement, 168
- development, 270
- second generation creation, 271
- Mitchell, George/Cynthia, 346
- Modern corporation, rise, 48–50
- Money, 288
- discussion, 292
- management skills, assessment, 307
- meanings, 291
- saving, 39
- spending, 152–153
- values, teaching (three-box tool), 296–297
- Moody, Michael, 153–154
- Moral agreements, 261–263
- Moral goals, 338–340
- Mulliez, André, 165
- Multigenerational family business, culture, 113
- Multigenerational family enterprise
- achievements, 23
- adaptation, 87
- best practices, 234–235
- transitions, facing, 110
- Multigenerational giving, 345
- N
- New family leaders, professionalization, 138–141
- New generation
- entrepreneurial focus, 141–148
- offerings, 339–340
- New philanthropy, old philanthropy (contrast), 337–338
- New wealth, consideration (absence), 69
- New World (Gilded Age), 46–48
- Next generation. See Rising generation
- NEXUS, 340–341
- Noblesse oblige, 333
- Nonfamily
- board members, impact, 187–188
- leadership, support, 138
- managers, emergence, 76
- nonfamily-controlled public corporations, effectiveness/profitability, contrast, 51
- Nonfamily CEO, 221
- challenges, 94
- hiring, 127
- presence, 328
- statement, 126
- Nonfamily leader, 293
- collaboration, 133–135
- recruitment, 137
- Nonmaterialism (family value), 272
- Nonowning family members, definition, 17
- Nonprofit organization, family (comparison), 329–330
- Nuclear households, composition, 20
- Numbering generations, definition, 17
- O
- Obscene words, avoidance, 39
- Older generations, role, 208–211
- Old philanthropy, new philanthropy (contrast), 337–338
- Operating business, 191
- Operating entities, defining, 261
- Opportunistic innovation, 114
- Opportunists, 91, 137
- action, 118
- business success strategies, 116–118
- Organizations
- business effectiveness, 114
- defining, constitution (impact), 260–261
- Organized family voice, provision, 249
- Owners
- council, 231
- generation, emergence, 24
- group, development, 178
- impact, 277
- lives, 278
- mindset
- adoption, 25
- development, 71
- oversight, 128
- owners-in-waiting, 231
- owner-to-be (owner-in-waiting), definition, 17
- plan, development, 182
- rights, 316
- Ownership
- conversation, 256
- government, family governance (linking), 227–228
- process, interest, 264
- structure, clarity, 266
- support, 277
- transfer, 268
- P
- Parental engagement, problem, 299–300
- Parents, vision/values (discussion), 304
- Partnership, paternalism (contrast), 70f
- Passive asset management, 334–335
- Paternalism
- legacy, 65–66
- partnership, contrast, 70f
- Paternalistic industrialization, 35, 44
- Patient capital, 122
- Perceptions, 234
- Perry, Commodore, 39
- Personal Development Plan, development, 305–306
- Personal expenses, control, 39
- Personal values
- Personnel decisions, privacy/professionalism, 141
- Philanthropic endeavor, family foundation,
- Philanthropic resources, division, 345
- Philanthropy, 52–54, 177
- boundary, 162
- commitment, financing, 219
- committee, 82
- family constitution, 268
- generative family engagement, 343
- moral imperative, 335–337
- multigenerational giving, 345
- old philanthropy, new philanthropy (contrast), 337–338
- power, 339
- shared family activity, 342–349
- strategies, 340
- usage, 339, 340–342
- Picture books, activities, 212
- Place-based giving, global giving (contrast), 337–338
- Plant tours, 312
- Policies, explicit values, 75
- Political background, 329–330
- Polly Peck, collapse, 45–46
- Portals, corporate maintenance, 265
- Portfolio
- business diversification, 99–102
- entrepreneurial mindset, adoption, 102
- Prepare/anticipate (resilience cycle), 107
- Pride (successor value), 295
- Private achievements, 23
- Privately held companies,
- Private trust company, creation, 106
- Problem-solving session, 257
- Product
- creation, 88
- obsolescence, technology (impact), 88
- Professional business, tribal family (contrast), 223f
- Professional education (family value), 272
- Professionalization, 116–117
- Professional management, pathways, 135–137
- Professional nonfamily leaders/advisors/executives, stakeholder group, 119
- Profits
- business generation, 88
- importance, 276–277
- short-term profits, forgoing, 97
- Pruning, 110
- family tree pruning, 97–99
- generative family transformation path, 91
- Public achievements, 23
- Public businesses, culture, 113
- Public companies
- family control,
- resilience/adaptivity, 352
- R
- Redefine/renew (resilience cycle), 107
- Refamiliazation, 35, 54–56
- Reinvention, 89–91
- Related households, community, 68–73
- Relationship
- Relationship Capital, reference, 360
- Renewal task force, 79–80
- Reputational goals, 338–340
- Réseau Entreprendre, 165
- Resilience
- cycle, 108f
- desired capability, 305
- structure, 107–108
- three-phase resilience cycle, impact, 107
- Resiliency, 111
- Respect
- family value, 272
- successor value, 295
- usage, 39
- Responsibility, rising generation education, 26–27
- Rising generation (next generation), 283
- calls, 325
- capability (development), active plans (usage), 71
- choice, 325
- competence/capability, development, 253
- criteria, 356
- definition, 16
- desired capabilities, 305
- development, 309–310
- generative families, impact, 287
- dialogue, 212
- education, 26–27, 309–310
- educational programs, 301–303
- engagement, 338–340
- family enterprise employment pathway, 329
- family members, stakeholder group, 119
- family service, 324–332
- governance involvement, 330–331
- guidance, need, 327
- human capital, 331
- impact, increase, 342
- inheritor, qualities, 285–286
- members
- benefits, inheritance, 223
- engagement, 334–335
- participation, 345
- personal bonds, 334
- potential, release, 285
- programs, origination, 311
- skills, 300–302
- value, 318
- Robber barons, profit pursuit, 46
- Rockefeller Family Fund, creation, 54
- Rockefeller family, philanthropy/values-based enterprise, 52–54
- Rockefeller, John D., 52–53
- Rockefeller, Jr., John D., 52
- Roles, impact, 277–278
- Rothschild, Mayer Amschel, 41–42
- S
- S-curve, addition, 90f
- Second generation (G2),
- aging, 188
- business
- dealings, 77
- families, positioning, 12
- issues, 183
- success, 116
- value, loss, 49
- challenges, 61
- charter/mission statement creation, 271
- conflict, 72–73
- constitution, elements, 265
- cultural shift, 183
- decline/stagnation, 32
- elder
- entrepreneur example, 41
- estate control, 312
- evolution, example, 269–270
- expansion, 219
- funding, necessity (absence), 245–246
- growth, 223
- involvement, 135
- leaders, 293
- hands-on business owner/operators, 178
- member legacy, 64–65
- members, foundation, 109
- movement, social upheaval (impact), 157
- pattern, 119
- perspectives/histories, divergence, 63
- representatives, selection, 247–248
- second family constitution, signing, 270
- siblings
- connection, 16
- issues, 65
- widows, 197
- successors, 64
- trust, 244–245
- Second-generation family
- approach, 12
- board of director composition, 321–322
- business leader, example, 99
- leadership, transition, 128
- leaders, leadership, 33
- members, role, 62
- rescue, 89
- separation, 65
- successors, emergence, 301
- wealth, 21
- Self-esteem (successor value), 295
- Seventh generation (G7) family
- business tradition, 83
- enterprise, 344
- Shared activities/practices, family infrastructure, 288
- Shared core purpose, 25
- Shared family
- activity, 342–349
- assets, management, 253
- engagement, service/philanthropy, 349–350
- governance, igniting, 219–221
- identity, long-term family enterprise criteria, 11
- philanthropy, young people (relationship), 334
- Shared goals, 222
- Shared mission statement, creation, 270
- Shared purpose, affirmation, 66
- Shared purpose/values, sustenance/renewal, 24–25
- Shared service
- activities, 313–314
- projects, 349
- Shared values, 25
- Shareholders
- checks/balances, 195
- funds, distribution, 268
- increase, 88
- increase, generational transitions (impact), 88
- number, reduction, 99
- observers, application, 312
- role, 268
- status, 277
- Short-term profits, forgoing, 97
- Siblings
- age similarities, 69
- collaboration, 64–68
- transition, complication (challenges), 65–66
- Single entrepreneur, achievement, 32
- Single legacy family business, 30
- Sixth generation, involvement, 313
- Skills, assessment, 306
- Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), 50–51
- Small business
- example, –7
- success, 63–64
- Social bonds/relationships, 37
- Social capital, 29, 217
- interest, expansion, 334–335
- Social Capital, reference, 360
- Social change, competition, 92
- Social events, planning, 172
- Social gathering, 206
- Social goals, 226
- Social impact travel, 350
- Social innovation, 334
- Social mission, family constitution, 268
- Social responsibility, 151, 173
- boundary, 162
- definition (Friedman), 152
- emergence, 44–46
- Social systems
- divergent social systems, example, 21–22
- hybrid family/business social system, 23–24
- Social upheaval, impact, 147
- Social values/ventures, 268
- Societies, rituals, 313
- Stakeholder groups
- contributions, 119
- generative alliance, 118–121
- Stakeholders
- importance, 276–277
- viewpoint, 127
- Steering committee, 254–255
- Steward
- definition, 17
- owner role, 179
- Stewardship, 21, 276, 290–291
- mandate, difficulty, 180
- rising generation education, 26–27
- Stock, classes, 192
- Stories, activities, 211
- Strategic Family Roadmap, 234
- Success
- Succession process (fifth generation), 139
- Successors, 327
- desired values, 295
- development, 287
- family asset control, 287
- installation, 287
- reactions, 63
- Sustainability, 151, 156, 334
- Sweet spots, creation, 159
- Systems, history (understanding), 341–342
- T
- Talent
- management, 76
- pool, deepening, 127, 133–135
- Task, attention, 39
- Task forces
- Technology
- competition, 92
- focus, 170
- impact, 88
- rise, 55
- Teenagers
- gathering, 310
- summer experience, design, 304
- Third generation (G3), 177
- adulthood, approach, 203
- aging, support, 116
- branch identity, importance (decline), 192
- business
- control, 108
- improvement, 116
- value, loss, 49
- challenges, 42
- change, 134
- clarity, absence, 177
- constitution, emergence, 260
- control, passage, 10
- cousins, 145
- role, 32
- skills, pooling, 88
- cultural shift, 183
- education, 135
- enterprise, elements, 16
- father, work value development, 302
- generative families
- branches/households, 310
- legacy business ownership, 100
- movement, 12
- governance, development, 233
- issues, 101
- leader, 293
- leadership, 143–144
- independent directors, presence, 188
- legacy business, family member distance, 151
- maturation, 69
- members
- advancement, 42
- number, 14
- power, 135
- nonfamily leader, recruitment, 137
- owners, 211
- ownership transfers, 277
- pattern, 119
- representatives, selection, 247–248
- rules/structures, addition, 188
- second family constitution, signing, 270
- shared identity/ownership, discontinuation, 204
- shared wealth, 31
- siblings
- family legacy, 274
- involvement, 61
- single legacy family business, 30
- size/complexity, 329
- successors, 64
- survival, 219
- transition, 78
- trust/respect, 277
- wealth (Rockefeller family), example, 52–53
- Third-generation family
- branches, 21
- business, presence, 129
- council, 245
- elder, education, 263–264
- enterprise, culture (change), 70
- enterprise, policies/practices, 70
- governance, need, 216
- investment group, creation, 144–145
- involvement, 139
- leaders, 239–240, 295
- business redefinition, 88
- impact, 88
- innovation/change, 115
- leadership, 33
- legacy business continuation, 138
- lines, 190
- members, role, 62
- office, usage, 103
- opportunity, initiation, 309
- owners, comfort, 178
- ownership, example, 165
- preparation, 20
- relationships, cultivation/strengthening, 78
- successors, emergence, 301
- Thousand-year family enterprises, Asian origins, 35, 37–40
- Three-box tool, 296–2979
- Three-generation family foundation, example, 346–347
- Threshold Foundation, 340
- Time, commitment, 97
- Time line, activities, 211
- Traders, family fortunes (accumulating/sustaining), 35, 40–44
- Traeger-Muney, Jamie, 333
- Transitions, trouble, 137
- Transparency
- desired capability, 305
- family quality/value, 218
- increase, 66
- path, 184–185
- responsibility, 185–186
- “Tribal” family/community, 75
- Tribal family, professional business (contrast), 223f
- Tribes, growth, 201–202
- Trustees, appointment, 268
- Trusts
- asset ownership,
- development, 66
- role, 268
- Trust structure, 133
- Trust wave, 76
- Two-board structure, 190–191
- V
- Values. See Family councils; Family values
- action, 270–271
- conversation, 256
- defining, 272
- embracing, 318
- focus, 295
- instilling, 294
- legacy values, 114
- maintenance, 94
- parental discussion, 304
- rising generation education, 26–27
- role, emphasis, 271
- statements, examples, 272
- transmission, 292
- values-based culture, building/sustaining, 113
- values-based enterprise, 52–54
- values-based entities, family actions, 25
- Vanguard Public Foundation, 340
- Ventures
- capital, investments, 101
- definition, 17
- development, 93
- family funding/support, 268
- family member initiation,
- initiation, 328
- Village tradition, 98
- Vision
- extension, 128
- long-term vision, 123
- maintenance, 98–99
- parental discussion, 304
- Volunteers, service, 328
- W
- War occupation, survival, 88
- Wealth
- character, parenting/developing, 290–296
- children, identity (development), 297–300
- conversations, 256
- creation
- occurrence, 32
- results, 33
- creator, 256
- heir control, 64
- legacy, 62–64
- married-in relatives, 20–21
- dimensions, 29t
- family wealth, promise (fulfillment), 27–29
- fourth generation, 84
- inheriting, 288–290
- management skills, assessment, 307
- messages, 306
- purpose, 288–290
- responsibility (successor value), 295
- Rockefeller family, example, 52–53
- sources, 93
- trappings, 297
- Welfare State, creation, 45
- Work
- age-appropriate work, usage, 304
- education, 300
- ethic
- development, 302–303
- successor value, 295
- obligation, feeling, 326
- requirement, 300
- skills (successor value), 295
- values, development, 302
- Working group
- World war, survival, 88
- Y
- Younger family members
- entitlement, 320
- internships/summer job programs, 138
- invitation, 313
- Younger generations
- Youngers, 210–211
- Young family member
- developmental path, 288–300
- public perceptions, 293
- understanding, 311
- Young people
- critical stages, parent assistance, 303
- engagement, pathways, 312
- leadership focus, 301
- shared family philanthropy attraction, 334
- wealth, 299
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