by Ian Smith | Jul 12, 2016 | Family Business
In this post I’d like to examine a delicate subject, always present in every business, but particularly tricky in family businesses – When is it time for a founder to step aside? It’s not always an age related retirement issue. Recently we’ve...
by Ian Smith | Dec 5, 2012 | Leadership, Management, Scaling
This Question was asked this week in the FT influenced by the embarrassing debate over the future of Andrew Mason, founder and CEO of Groupon. The answers by an investor, a current CEO and an academic were helpful and can be summarized as: When someone else can do the...
