What must be transferred
besides wealth
for continuity
to be possible?
An ongoing research initiative exploring the human dynamics that shape continuity across generations in family enterprise systems. Through conversations, field observations and emerging questions.
An independent research initiative, with a fixed methodology and an editorial validation process with every interviewee.
The Observatory does not produce answers. It produces better questions.
Observing what continuity requires beyond governance.
What Deserves to Be Preserved
What deserves to be preserved is rarely the same as what once made a family successful. In dialogue with Sébastien Damery, eighth-generation shareholder of one of the family groups behind Peugeot.
The Hardest Thing to Redesign Is Success
What made a family enterprise successful may be exactly what it now needs to let go of. In dialogue with Fernanda Jaramillo, Partner at Lansberg Gersick Advisors (LGA).
It Just Hasn't Said It Yet.
The System Already Knows. It Just Hasn't Said It Yet.
What would we ask of a family that we never ask of a protocol? On the gap between governance structures and the conditions they require to function.
Belonging, Governance and the Conversations Families Avoid
An opening note on the territory the Observatory is exploring — and the question that organises the research.