Index

  • 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
      • stages, 189f
      • trajectory, 188–189
    • 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
      • example, 21–22
    • 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
  • “Castle, The,” 153
  • 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, 5
  • 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, 7–10
  • 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, 4
    • 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
    • service, 328–332
  • 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
    • definition, 15
  • Experiences, sharing, 350
  • Explicit values, 75
  • Extended family
    • activities, 310–324
    • community, creation, 201
    • focus, 5
    • 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, 5
    • 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
      • emergence, 67–68
    • change, resistance, 89
    • characteristics, 15f
    • charitable foundation, establishment, 336
    • citizen, value/governance commitment, 286
    • code of conduct, 267
      • principles, example, 273
    • communities, appearance, 36
    • competition, 139
    • conflict, 109, 252
    • conglomerates
      • example, 6–7
      • 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
      • initiatives, 331
    • 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
      • building, 202–204
    • 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
    • definition, 15
  • Family Balance Sheet, 359–360
  • Family business, 181–182
    • boundary, management, 80
    • defining quality, 4
    • 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
      • conducting, 251–253
    • 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, 4–6
    • 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, 5
    • impact, 3
    • 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, 6
    • 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
    • action, sample, 359f
  • 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), 6, 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, 7–10
    • 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, 1
  • 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), 3
  • Global company, example, 318–319
  • Global giving, place-based giving (contrast), 337–338
  • Global instability, family enterprise refuge, 352–353
  • Globalization, 55
    • competition, 92
  • 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, 5
  • Honor culture, 41
  • Households
    • definition, 16
    • related households, community, 68–73
  • House of Rothschilds, 41–42
  • Human capital, 28, 331
    • cultivation, 235
    • development, 76, 249
      • family value, 25
    • growth, 75
    • reference, 359
  • 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
    • formation, 195
  • K
  • Kongō Gumi, 39
  • 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
      • decision, 94–95
    • 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, 3
  • 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
      • definition, 17
      • role, 268
    • 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, 5
  • 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, 5
  • 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, 5
    • 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
      • cultivation, 235
    • 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), 4
    • 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
      • reactions, 63
    • 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, 6–7
    • 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
    • gauge, 339
    • generations, impact, 88, 354
  • Succession process (fifth generation), 139
  • Successors, 327
    • desired values, 295
    • development, 287
    • family asset control, 287
    • installation, 287
    • reactions, 63
  • Sustainability, 151, 156, 334
    • importance, 237
  • 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
      • path, loss, 109
    • 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, 5
    • 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, 5
    • 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
    • composition, 260
    • joining, 264
  • 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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