David's Articles

David has been writing and blogging for over 10 years

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Rising Generations Need to Understand These 5 Dimensions of Life

Photo by Hudson Hintze on Unsplash A natural byproduct of interacting with many family businesses / offices is that you begin to hear common threads of inquiry / concern. Almost unanimously, every conversation includes something along the lines of, our family is...

The Centrality of Investment to the Legacy Family

Photo by Tom Fisk on Pexels.com Multi-generational family enterprises, their businesses, governance structures, and teams are many things, but perhaps their most common attribute is busy. Across the enterprise, there is inevitably a growing number of activities to...

Societal Structure, Good Tribalism, and Individuation

Photo by Mike Chai on Pexels.com Time passes quickly and it has been a month since I have written anything. The time has been busy both with client work, but perhaps most occupied by moving to a new house, a tremendous disruption though an excellent change. My time...

Pursuing 100 Years is Tough – and Not For All Families

Photo by Jackson Simmer on Unsplash It has been a busy start to the year - 2022 is off to the races. A regular topic of conversation that keeps surfacing is both the exceptional difficulty and combined intentionality that is required for a family to pursue a legacy...

Mission Statement Conversations Are Beyond Important But Hard to Have

Photo by Quang Nguyen Vinh on Pexels.com Our final post last year considered, the concept of mission and its importance in the work we do at Family Capital Strategy. As we highlighted then, Family Capital Strategy helps legacy families create ecosystems where...