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What does it take for a family member to actually earn the top job?
Blood ties don't guarantee business competence. In part two of our conversation, Erik Guggenheim unpacks the messy mechanics of buying out his parents and the six-year estrangement that followed.
Running a generational company requires drawing hard lines between kinship and performance. Erik explains why enforcing a rigid, employee-voted progression track for relatives prevents unearned promotions and toxic work cultures. He shares hard-won methods for transitioning unqualified kin out of executive seats and outlines why forcing a legacy plan often destroys both the enterprise and the…
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