A blessing for a long-term key employee
Many family businesses are blessed by long-term employees who care for the company as if it was their own. In fact, it sometimes feels as if their emotional and psychological ownership exceeds some...
Faith & Family Business
A blessing for the next generation’s new business venture
June 18, 2023
Family businesses, and the industries in which they operate, mature over time. A company that began in survival mode becomes stable. Revenue increases. Customers grow. More opportunities arrive. But...
David’s True Legacy
June 5, 2023
I hope you’ve enjoyed reflecting with me over the last year on King David and his family. On this Christmas morning, my final meditation is about David’s family legacy: Jesus. The lineage is...
A blessing for the new year in your family business
June 5, 2023
Over the last two years, I used the biblical stories of Jacob and Esau, and King David, to reflect on challenges and opportunities in family businesses. I also spent some time in the book of Proverbs...
A blessing for a family member recovering from addiction
June 4, 2023
Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published I often wish it all felt the way it looked, that I could actually be living the life everyone thinks they see. But it feels...
A blessing for a sibling partnership
May 21, 2023
Sibling relationships in a family business can be both a strength and a weakness. The trust that is often implicit between brothers and sisters can be a powerful force in the division of labor and in...
A blessing for the end of a family business partnership
May 7, 2023
Ending a family business partnership may not seem like a situation that qualifies for a blessing. Feelings of disappointment, guilt that you are letting down prior (or future) generations, or a...
The dark side of succession (Part 3)
April 28, 2023
We have seen how Joab, King David’s general, brought David’s “handsome” son, Absalom, back to Jerusalem. But, because of earlier family conflicts, David refused to see Absalom. Two years pass, and...
The dark side of succession (Part 4)
April 28, 2023
My last reflection focused on how King David’s son, Absalom, got the attention of his father by burning a field of crops owned by Joab, David’s key general. Now back in his father’s good graces,...
Succession Lessons from David and Absalom
April 28, 2023
The last few weeks I’ve reflected on the “dark side” of succession. I wrote about the way in which David brought his son, Absalom, home to Jerusalem; the image of Absalom, including his attempts to...