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    FBCG Moves Family Businesses Beyond Best Practices

    The associates of the Family Business Consulting Group, Inc.® understand the unique challenges that a family business faces. In order to prosper, family businesses need assistance with strategic planning, communication, and leadership development. This is where the Family Business Consulting Group can help. Our team of consultants has made it their business to give family businesses the tools they need—from succession planning to Board of Directors development. Our associates are also available for speaking engagements and seminars.

     We have helped family businesses of all sizes, from Fortune 500 operations to smaller, closely held companies. The Family Business Consulting Group, Inc.® can provide you will the solutions you need to succeed across generations.

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     Gregory Greenleaf Named Principal Consultant
     
     
     
     
    Greg’s ascension through the firm’s ranks, joining as a consultant in 2005, becoming a senior consultant in 2007, and now to a position which reflects he is a full and equal equity shareholder of the Family Business Consulting Group is just the sort of trajectory FBCG holds as ideal.  Through successfully larger and more complex client engagements Greg has shown leadership, insight, knowledge and delivered fantastic value to his clients in pivotal areas of governance, shareholder development, strategy and finance.  His business and family systems acumen illustrates the integrated approach FBCG is known for – approach family firm engagements with a sound integrated approach which protects the integrity of both the enterprise and the family.   
     
    Along with Joe Schmieder, 2012 marks a year in which two of the firm’s members, folk who began as consultants and worked their way up, have been welcomed as principals / shareholders of the company.  FBCG now has eight equal owners and plans to add more regularly as other consultants in the firm fulfill the necessary expectations for leadership and excellence and wish to ascend to ownership. 

     


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    Managing Conflict in the Family Business Understanding Challenges at the Intersection of Family and Business

    Managing conflict is a challenge in any business setting and yet when managed correctly, some conflicts can actually be beneficial. But knowing how to leverage conflict into an advantage is not always so immediately clear and this is particularly true within family businesses. That's because the dynamics that can produce conflict within a family simultaneously intersect with the challenges of owning and operating a business, potentially complicating both.
    This book will identify Family Business Conflict Archetypes (patterns), Frames, Roles, and Tactics. They are discussed with a view toward educating readers to the common conflict cycles that families running a business can encounter. Keys to effectively managing these unique conflicts and the changes they produce, are also discussed. More specifically, utilizing a mini case study approach, this book will address twelve conflicts that are common in family owned businesses, how families can spot them, and then plan for their successful and effective management in ways that simultaneously uphold the family and the business.

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