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Planning With Off-Farm Heirs
Don't let uniformed family members wreck your plans. Succession planning can be complicated on a good day but factoring in off-farm heirs adds in another entire level of complexity. Luckily, you can take steps to make this process smoother, says Rena Striegel,...
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...