Written by Amy Wirtz, Senior Family Enterprise Advisor When multiple generations sit around the family table, conversations can quickly shift from future business strategy to past household grievances. Family competition, comparisons, and lingering grudges can easily infect the very assets that produce wealth for everyone. If generations view the enterprise strictly through the lens of “what’s in it for me”—or

Written by Amy Wirtz, Senior Family Enterprise Advisor The Story of the Extended Vacation The founder of a successful family-owned enterprise had finally taken the extended vacation her family and executive team had urged her to take for years. She would be away for several weeks and, for the first time, agreed not to monitor every operational decision from her