A Business Blog for SMEs & Family Businesses

I was recently listening to the latest book of leadership guru Brené Brown. For twenty years, Brené Brown has tracked the trajectory of leadership. From the early days of The Gifts of Imperfection, where she begged leaders to believe they were “enough,” to the battle cry of Dare to Lead, where she prepped leaders to be ready for a specific kind of “war”: the...

For many family business owners, “growth” is the declared holy grail. It’s their primary metric of success. However, there is often a profound disconnect between the desire for the result and the willingness to undergo the process. When I peel back the layers, I often find a growth paradox: owners who crave an ever-increasing topline but are deeply resistant to the structural...

Albert Einstein may have coined the phrase “Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing Over and Over and Expecting Different Results” although he was likely not a football fan, this famous “quote” perfectly encapsulates the current state of Italian football. For over a decade, the Azzurri and the FIGC (Italian Football Federation) have stared at a burning house and decided tha...