pricewaterhousecoopers share the secrets of business development and growth.
pricewaterhousecoopers share the secrets of business development and growth.
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http://www.yourbusinesschannel.com In this show business experts from pricewaterhousecoopers warn startups and entrepreneurs about the business mistakes you must avoid!
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According to the business experts at pricewaterhousecoopers, SMEs need to look for ...
According to the business experts at pricewaterhousecoopers, SMEs need to look for opportunities to collaborate and work together to survive the recession.
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More expert business advice from Paul George from the Business Families Team at pricewaterho...
More expert business advice from Paul George from the Business Families Team at pricewaterhousecoopers, as he gives examples of the kinds of problems family business face, and effective ways to deal with them:
“There are obviously some different roles here and that can cause some different situations, difficult situations. I mean I think one leader of a fabulous UK business said to me the other day is the one thing you always have to remember is he’s married to the mother of his managing director and difficult decisions always have to be made. I think one family business leader told me he found it a big break through in his family relationships when he’d worked out that raising performance issues over the family Christmas dinner was probably not a good way to behave.
Yeah this stuff is difficult, this stuff is difficult and it has to be managed I think those who do it well are very rigorous about separating the different roles they play, about doing business especially the hard parts of business and difficult discussions in the right environment, in the office at the right time but this is not easy stuff and more generally if you look at some of the retorts about benefits of the family businesses some of the big problems in family business can come where family dynamics do go wrong, where there a problems within the family and it also easy for that to spill over, down into the business. Typically these are relatively non-political organisations, providing that the family is getting on well, can become enormously political if there is a problem within the family.
I think one of the key things is to have some clarity and structure around what the deal is. What the deal is within the family about the relationship with the business so at the sort of simplest level I think best practices for family owning businesses to have clarity about, you’re a shareholder, what are your rights in terms of getting involved in the business, can you turn up and view and if so when, can you work in the business, ...
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An interview with USC Marketing professor Gerard Tellis.
An interview with USC Marketing professor Gerard Tellis.
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http://www.yourbusinesschannel.com brings you business ideas from the experts at pricewaterhousecoopers on surviving the recession.
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In this business tv show, Paul George from the Business Families Team at pricewaterhousecoop...
In this business tv show, Paul George from the Business Families Team at pricewaterhousecoopers explains why it could be in your best interest to buy out the rest of the family:
“The other thing that can be a problem with a family business that thrives over many generations is if you’re not careful you end up with a very unmanageable share holder register.
You know in a modern family it’s often the case that the entrepreneur will split the shares pretty equally among his children. If they do the same then in some families within generations you’re talking about dozens of shareholders and you can end up in a very difficult and unmanageable situation where its still a private company but its got a pretty widely spread shareholder base who aren’t closely associated with what’s going on and often the company carries on operating in much the same way they did in the first generation, with a very low dividend, really running very conservatively for the benefit of the business, not the shareholders and that’s a recipe for all sorts of problems if its not sorted out.
The companies that survive longest in terms of generations, if you go back through you’ll often find there’s been a succession of single children. The two big problems in family succession are having no children and having many children and there’s a process that many of those survived have gone through every 2 or 3 generations of, if you like pruning the family tree, buying out those parts of the shareholder register that aren’t really heavily committed to the company anymore.
Borrowing in the company and doing that in that way and history says that’s a successful part of the process of keeping a family process healthy in the long term.”
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Business experts from pricewaterhousecoopers share their experience and advice on t...
Business experts from pricewaterhousecoopers share their experience and advice on the common mistakes that too often lead to business failure.
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More expert business advice from Paul George from the Business Families Team at pricewaterho...
More expert business advice from Paul George from the Business Families Team at pricewaterhousecoopers, who explains what it is that makes family businesses such strong performers:
"I think what do family businesses do well? Family businesses are fantastically good at building really strong cultures. Really strong cultures that employees and stakeholders buy into big time.
Its so much easier to believe that a family that's been running a business for 3 or 4 generations and really, really believe in their product and believe in their business its so much easier to buy into that than it is maybe in a public company that is owned by a different bunch of funds this week to next week and the great public companies really, really make use of that and the families that own them in many ways often have moved away from large parts of the fulltime executive management of the company but the ones that do it well recognise them as having a unique position of being if you like ambassadors of the value of the business both internally and outside the company and that's a very powerful advantage.
Where a family manages to articulate the values of the business clearly that's powerful and it's very, very easy for all concerned to buy into that.
The other thing that's probably worth talking about is just performance and the data's difficult on relative performance but given that quite a lot of companies that are family owned are public companies, and quite a few surveys have been done on how do they actually do? How does this stuff actually work? Its difficult data and its difficult to read it clearly but they're certainly not underperforming and the majority or surveys seem to show that family ownership is actually pretty much a positive in terms of the performance of a company and there are funds out there that actually pick their investments in terms of favouring family companies because they reckon it's a criteria for performance.
Why would that be? Well essentially these companies are operating on a much longer time horizon than companies which are perhaps driven by the surplus and reporting requirements of a widely spread private company, public company rather and the family ownership gives them the luxury to actually look out on eight,10 or 20 at a time horizon and a lot of them take good advantage of that."
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Hear expert business advice from Alexander Pepper, Partner at pricewaterhousecoopers
Hear expert business advice from Alexander Pepper, Partner at pricewaterhousecoopers, as he explains why the CEO myth exists, and why a hero CEO may not make the problems go away:
“One of the big mistakes I think companies make is thinking its all about the CEO that the charismatic CEO can be brought into rescue a situation and turn it around and make everything alright. It’s a bit like the England football manager; issues tend to be more systemic than that.
Sometimes you need an outsider with some fresh ideas; sometimes symbolically the capital markets expect you to bring in an outsider to bring in some fresh ideas so you have to pay attention to that but its like spending money on training.
You shouldn’t assume that if you bring in a CEO from outside, big hitting CEO with a great reputation all your problems are solved. The world is more complicated than that and some of the most effective companies are ones that have a tradition of promoting their CEOs from within that have got the development programs, the talent management programs to identify people with leadership potential to give them opportunities and you know then to help them rise up to the top.
I guess the sort of the leadership school that everyone talks about is GE. GE has produced some of corporate Americas leading CEOs both for themselves, but also for other companies from those that didn’t get the top job in GE. So they, GE seems to have found a way of creating a talent school of bringing people up through the organisation, identifying those who have got talent.
Finding [the] opportunities for them to grow, moving them up into the top team and then selecting the leaders from that range.”
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More expert business advice from Paul George from the Business Families Team at pricewaterho...
More expert business advice from Paul George from the Business Families Team at pricewaterhousecoopers, as he reveals why he thinks taking on a non-family member in that senior positions in your family business could be the wisest move:
"I think hiring senior staff from outside the family is always a challenge for family businesses, particularly the first time they do it, it's a big step for someone senior to come into a family business and be very conscious, a bunch of unwritten rules, very unclear about how the family operate, the feasibility of the business and I think family businesses are also quite nervous about whether they can compete with public company reward scenarios like share options, because typically the don't want to complicate the equity position with share options and so on.
In fact I think family businesses, good ones, don't need to be so defensive about this, I think they're very attractive employers.
I think a lot of senior people in business have got very tired of the public company circuit, have seen through the essentially lotto ticket type approach that co driven compensation from a public company drives them to and I think a thoughtful family business that's thought through clearly how its going to relate to a senior management person can offer a very attractive package and I've seen them hire some very, very attractive people, very good people.
In terms of a family business looking outside the family for guidance I think there's an extremely valuable role even in a family business that's still family managed for a strong non exec team on the board. Families find these individuals with strong business experience who get to know the business, get to know the family just invaluable in helping them guide through some of the issues they face and that's an arrangement that works extremely well in almost every circumstance that I've seen where the right people have ended up on the board.
How easy is it for a family to reach out beyond that for advice? Well it's a big step for some of them sometimes and I think it needs to be to advisors that understand the environment. I think for a family business to be talking to advisors who don't understand what's different and special about a family business can be a very difficult process but quite a large reason to find a good one."
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