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Does your family business need a war room?

October 22, 2020

When in The Godfather—cinema’s most brilliant depiction of a business family—the Corleone family come under attack, they ‘go to the mattresses’, ordering their foot soldiers to move into secret apartments, where they will sleep side-by-side on mattresses and await further instruction.

Book reviews: Indian Family Business Mantras

May 12, 2016

An engaging collaboration between UK and Indian family business experts Peter Leach and Tatwamasi Dixit, it brings together Eastern and Western thinking on family business issues – suffusing practical process with quotes from Indian epics.

Deloitte expands family business offering with acquisition

November 18, 2014

The proliferation of entrepreneurialism around the world means the family business sector has massive growth potential, according to Deloitte, and the Big Four firm is positioning itself to further take advantage of this market.

It announced this month that it is acquiring UK family enterprise business Peter Leach & Partners. In a press release, Deloitte described the eponymous founder as the founding father of family business in the UK.

The value of family

May 1, 2006

As part of an occasional series, Families in Business chairs a roundtable discussion at Campden’s Families in Business Conference on the importance of values in family business

As part of an occasional series, Families in Business chairs a roundtable discussion at Campden's Families in Business Conference on the importance of values in family business

Roundtable panel

Patrick Peyton is a non-family member who leads Despatch Industries' family office as well as their operating companies. The family firm is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and has been in existence for 140 years.

The changing face of family business

November 1, 2005

Women looking for a fast track to a seat on the board should join the family business, according to new research by Coutts. More than 60% of British family businesses have female directors.

Scott McCulloch is editor of Families in Business.

The Family Firm Institute in Europe...

January 1, 2002

Families in Business talks to Peter Leach, Chairman of the Stoy Centre, and co-Chairman of the first FFI conference to be held in Europe

"Running a successfulfamily business is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle – unless all the pieces fit together exactly, it's a mess, "says Peter Leach, Chairman of The Stoy Centre for Family Business.

"Recently, so many pieces of the jigsaw have changed that we're now looking at a different picture. From now on, the speed of change is likely to be so fast that the family business sector will be less like a jigsaw, and more like a moving image.