Resilience and Trust: What Leaders Can Learn from Family Businesses

Some 60% of the world’s workers are employed by family businesses. Family businesses not only survive but thrive during turbulent times—making it through market failures, environmental disasters and even wars. How?

What You'll Learn in This Episode:
 🏝️ Islands of Trust and Resilience – How family businesses build stability and loyalty during turbulent times.
🛡️ Crisis as a Constant – Why stability is the exception, and how to plan for disruption.
🌱 Succession Planning – How to mentor the next generation while keeping pride in the family legacy.

Our guests this week are Devin DeCiantis and Ivan Lansberg. Devin is Managing Partner at Lansberg Gersick Advisors (LGA), an advisory partner to leading family enterprises worldwide. He holds a master’s degree from the Kennedy School at Harvard with a focus in finance and economics. Ivan Lansberg has a doctorate from Columbia University and taught organizational behavior at Columbia and then Yale before moving into consulting. Devin and Ivan’s new book is “The Enduring Enterprise: How Family Businesses Thrive in Turbulent Conditions.”

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