Family Ties®
Family Ties® is a free, E-letter published by Pervin Family Business Advisors Inc. to inform business family members and colleagues of trends and information that they may find beneficial to their business and to their families.
Archived issues of the Family Ties® Newsletter are also available for your reading pleasure.
Booklets – The Accidental Partnership® Series
- High Performance Business Family Teams -
PDF Version - Managing the Relationships that Bind or Bond -
PDF Version - Power and Resources: Managing Owner Risk, Legacy and Value -
PDF Version
Articles
The Individual
- The Many Faces of Control Freaks
- Preserving Your Sibling Connection: Set Up Rules to Resolve Sibling Conflicts
- How to Make the Best of an Accidental Partnership®
Shareholder Issues
- How Shared Leadership Can Work
- The Shareholders Agreement
- What's Your Ownership Perspective?
- Shareholder Agreements by Jules Lewy
Family Issues
- Families in Business Together: Set up Rules to Develop a Sibling Bond
- Inactive Partners
- Anger and the Accidental Partnership®
- Your Children and Wealth Preservation
- Show Children – And Talk About – The Money
- How Values Affect the Family Business
- How to Run a Family Meeting Without a Feud Breaking Out
- How to Keep the Peace at the Cottage
- The Fighting Side of Family Business
- The Ins and Outs of Handling In-Laws
- Relationships and Interpersonal Conflict by Ron Sparrow
Business Issues
- Creating a Board of Directors for the Family Firm: When Your Own Advice Isn't Good Enough!
- Team Building in the Family Firm
- How a Family Firm Should Hire an Outside CEO
- Want to Know a Secret? It Can Stunt Your Firm's Growth
- Outsiders on the Family Board Can Make a Difference
Loss Control Bulletin
Family Business Quarterly - Family Firms Need Policy for Conflicts of Interest
- Spinning Wheels in a Tenured Track
- Focusing on Tax Strategies for the Family Business by Karen Slezak
Governance
Continuity – For Founders
- A Mystery Wrapped Inside an Enigma
- Family Management and Business Success!
- From Business Founder to Family Business
- Transfer, Transition, Tension and the Family Business
Continuity – Ongoing Success
- Retreat to Win!
- Teamwork, The Key to Long-Term Success
- Remember, Family Before Business
- Build Unity With a Family Council
- Planning for Continuity
Other Articles of Interest
A Few Unspoken Rules that Possibly Shape your Business Family Life *NEW*
PARENT - Job Description *NEW*- Business Family Organization -
PDF Version - Holiday Trends – 2005
- The Art of Fighting Fair
- Consulting to Family Business: Therapist or Advisor?
Divisive reorganization in a complex family business – Continuity Analysis (450 KB)
"Trends in the Family Business Environment" Survey: Executive Summary (43 KB)
"Trends in the Family Business Environment (133 KB)- The New Business Family
- Profile of Aron Pervin – featured in ffi Update – Volume XIX, Number 4, April 2004
- A Conversation with Henry Mintzberg –
PDF Version - Successorship Manual, Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers
- Summary of McKinsey Surveys
Media Consultations
Ensuring Success in a Family Business – In M&A Monitor – Volume 22 *NEW*
Planning: The Bridge Connecting Generations in a Family Business (268 KB) – By Jim Curley- Family & Relationships By Sarah Hampson
- Essential Guides – Family Tools By The Year of the Canadian Entrepreneur
- Feeling at Home – Helping Outsiders Fit in to Your Family Business Goes a Long Way Toward Ensuring Your Firm's Success by Phil Perry
- Are you for Real? The Importance of Being Earnest by Judith Timson
- Save the Business, Even if you Can't Save the Marriage by Beth Marlin
- All in the Family, Even After the Marriage Ends by Gordon Pitts
- Keeping it All in the Family? Not Necessarily by Shirley Won
- Optometrist's Vision: Keep it all in the Family by Megan Ogilvie
- The Practicalities of Passing the Torch by Beth Marlin
- Elder Law: Our Clients' Needs – Real Issues and Practical Solutions in Serving the Older Clients.
- Entrepreneur's Diary – Chapter 42 – Family Business by Nancy Christie
- Interview: Meet Family Business Consultant Aron Pervin by The Business Owner Report
- Family Affairs – Succession is a Sticky Issue for Many Family Firms by Brian Meyer
- Family Firms Learn to Share Power by Margot Gibb-Clark
- Post Mortem Estate Planning
- How to Keep Top Performers on the Job by Andrew Poon
- Blood Ties & Business by Sandy Fife
- Consultant Smoothes Out Rough Spots by Tedd Whipp
- Resolving Interpersonal Conflict in The Financial Post
- When Your Own Advice Isn't Good Enough by Tim Haunn
- Winnipeg Business Sceneby Martin Cash
- Transfer of Family Business is Tricky by Marty Hope
- Dad, When are you Going to Let Go? by Jennifer Low
- Keeping Business All in Family: Start Succession Planning Now to Avoid Problems Later by Bruce Gates
- Prevent Family War by Succession-Planning by Jerry Zeidenberg
- Family Firms Urged to Keep Things Businesslike by Bob Papoe
- Like Father Like Son by Rita DeMontis


