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Understanding How Family Business Owners Think – Part 2

Understanding How Family Business Owners Think – Part 2

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...
When Should The Company Founder Step Down?

When Should The Company Founder Step Down?

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...

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