What’s different about family business? In the last issue I wrote about the special role of leaders, and that in family firms leadership is often unlike the types you find in other sectors, but it is what they are sitting on that really sets the family business apart from any other kind of private or public firm.
The leader of a family business can define the identity of the business. Nigel Nicholson guides any potential or actual leaders with the what, who and how of smart leadership
I was talking recentlyto the Chairman of a financial services organisation, telling him about my interest in family business and my desire to establish a new international centre for the study of leadership in family firms at London Business School.