Harvard Business Review
MAY 3, 2017
She says she applies a little self-test: “If I’m not presenting ideas that get turned down by the top team, I know I am playing it too safe. “I was surprised by how much I personally enjoyed running the HR function versus taking on a CFO role,” said Reses. My job is to push the envelope.”
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 5, 2018
Although talented and competent, he allowed himself to enter a negative cycle of activity after being hired into a large consumer goods company as the COO, and the presumptive successor to the CEO, who planned to retire in 24 months. Greg rolled up his sleeves and worked harder than he ever had, pushing the organization and himself.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 15, 2015
The tragedy is that these stages are largely avoidable, but the owners of family businesses have to be aware of them — and of the ways to extricate themselves when they get caught up in a spiral. And that’s the really hard part because each family member has many chances to keep the family and the business from self-destructing.
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