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Communication Strategies For Today’s Cancel Culture
Every year the Merriam-Webster dictionary adds new words to its latest edition. In 2020, for example, they added the word slow-walk, which means "delaying the progress of something by acting in a deliberately slow manner." And they added deepfake, which is "an image...
Succession Planning and Conflict: Should We Start Or Not?
I often meet owners who have concerns about succession planning due to conflict with their successors. Sometimes the conflict occurs because of a misalignment in plans for the business, and for others it is conflict within the family. Their concern is whether to start...
What Happens If No One Does Anything
We talk to a lot of farmers who haven't started their succession plan for various reasons. Some of the reasons for delaying the decision to begin are: 1) They don't know where to start. 2) They are not sure who to talk to. 3) They are not sure what their kids want. 4)...