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Finding Your Own Size When You Are Surrounded by Larger Than Life Figures
How do you live up to the legacy of your father, mother, matriarch or patriarch? Can you find your own niche in life, or are you shrinking in the shadow of your larger than life family member(s)? This delicate issue is discussed from the perspecti … -
Develop a 100-Year Plan: Set Your Family On The Road To Survival and Success
No one can predict a natural disaster or act of war that directly impacts your business. Likewise, no one can predict the internal conflicts that can destroy family unity and prosperity. If you have a strong foundation and a long-term plan from wh … -
Training The Next Generation: Creating a Junior Board
What skills in communication and leadership are learned being involved in the family company or foundation? Preparing the next generation to responsibly take over can begin with their involvement in a Junior Board.This seminar offers insight int …
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Stepping Down From The Pedestal
Do you have a fear of heights? Are you afraid to step off the pedestal that you have created and tell your family that not every decision that you made was successful?Tell them how you took huge risks and went broke twice before the oil well cam …
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Investment Basics for Foundation Board Members
The IPS is a written statement, formally adopted by a Board, that states a foundation’s mission and goals and how investment policy and practices will help achieve those goals. The IPS will include a list of assumptions and expectations; constrain … -
Maximizing Succession Success While Beating The Odds of Failure
You have your own jet, and you are a recognized name brand. You have seven children from three spouses. Yet none of your children have developed leadership or coping skills. What is the only common denominator …YOU! Do you practice succession sabo … -
Training The Next Generation: How to be Responsible Not Entitled With Managing Wealth
The responsibility of wealth falls on the shoulders of both parents and children. The term "idle rich" is a cliché. The effects of non-productivity are well documented. Explore the options of giving money to our children: from giving an allowance … -
Family Dynamics: Survival Course
Et tu Brute? The Hatfield’s and McCoy’s. This series is about Good and Bad Family Dynamics in Action. Oppenheimer uses his own family’s extensive family dynamics as a case study. There is no depth to which a loving family will not sink when sabota … -
Successful Successions
What are the choices for succession in your family leadership? There’s always the palace coup, or the basic survivor’s option in some civilizations: succession by assassination. Would you not be better off with good Family Planning?There’s healt …
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Create a Family Council
Developing a family council to monitor family dynamics, govern the family enterprises and practice good communication is one of the keys to success in creating the legacy family. The Family Council has four main goals: Provides Leadership Throu … -
Philanthropy: Sharing The Wealth and Dream
Getting your family started in philanthropy is healthy, rewarding and educational. Learn to use philanthropic work to strengthen the bonds of the family and open the doors to your passion. This seminar covers most areas of philanthropy by discussi … -
Successful and Unsuccessful Estate Planning
Estate planning challenges our concept of our selves. Inevitably it leads to succession planning, raises issues concerning family dynamics, and forces us to consider our own mortality. The process can be confusing, time consuming and expensive.M …
