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Your Fifth Strategic Goal Isn’t That Important
There is tremendous power in curating your goal list Photo by Suzy Hazelwood on Pexels.com Several years ago I was at an event for a non-profit's leadership team, board members and most engaged volunteers. In the course of the keynote speaker’s remarks, he asked...
Temporal stewardship and why it matters
"The past is never dead. It's not even past." - William Faulkner Photo by Monoar Rahman on Pexels.com My high school English teacher and I often failed to see eye to eye, and for good reason. As an generally enthusiastic, periodically obstinate, and frequently...
Is the pursuit of excellence limitless?
or is good enough sometimes just that? Among the many pleasures of house shopping is seeing how someone else lives. Even more so after buying a new home - you constantly wonder, how did these people live like this? No dimmers on this light switch,...
Excellence is not just for productivity bros
Is excellence little more than just hyped up efficiency? The Internet is good for many things, the creation of new terms for example. Terms like "Bro" and “Bro Culture” originally were an attempt to group and characterize a certain type of...
The Middle School Rule
Parenting a middle schooler is fraught with challenges. The inner life of an emerging adult - desperate not only to self-individuate but also not sure of being ready to leave the comforting dependency of childhood - is laden with minefields. Yet when...
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Family Office and Family Wealth
These articles were all drafted prior to David joining Greycourt in September 2023. He actively blogs on similar subject matter here.
- Pursuing 100 Years is Tough – and Not For All Families
- The Centrality of Investment to the Legacy Family
- How Fast Must a Family’s Assets Grow?
- Distribution Rate – The Only Variable a Family Can Control in Investing
- The Greatest, but Tenuous, Advantage for Family Investment
- The Value of Investment Advice vs. Its Cost
- What You Should Know Before Marrying Rich
- The Primary Risk for G1 Wealth Creators Starting a Family Office
- The Three Hardest Things For Family Enterprises to Do and Why
- What Do You Pay the People Who Make You Money?
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