“Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember;
involve me and I'll understand.”
Chinese Proverb
involve me and I'll understand.”
Chinese Proverb
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.”
Henry Ford
| “Another tool that is found only in family businesses, is the family council. The essential purpose of the family council is to periodically provide a forum where family values, needs, and expectations tied into the business are discussed and integrated. It is an opportunity for the family to create or rekindle the shared family vision.” Mario Alonso, Ph D “A family council provides an ideal setting for educating family members about the rights and responsibilities that come with business ownership and management… A family council helps clarify the boundary between the family and the company, and gives family members who are not in the business or ownership circles a chance to be heard. This reduces the likelihood that family concerns will be inappropriately imported into business decisions, and vice versa….” |
