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It’s no secret that complex conflicts are deeply embedded within every family-business system. AMI helps family members learn the communication skills that allow them to recognize conflicts and deal with them constructively.

Multi-generation family councils and family meetings are powerful tools for conveying family values, vision, and goals. AMI assists families in organizing and conducting family meetings that are rich in content, as well as positive in spirit and atmosphere. Every aspect of the event, from location to meetings, speakers, leisure activities, menu and documentation, are well designed in order to perfectly match the family’s heritage and vision.

Dr. Orenia Yanai has developed unique tools and techniques in the area of career diagnosis and development. She is a therapist and a guide of personal quests focusing on careers and callings of individuals, couples and partners. Her book “Every Person Has A Path” has been on the best selling book list in Israel, since its first publication. Dr. Yanai holds a B.A. in Psychology and Semitic Languages, an M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Tel Aviv University and a Ph.D. in Psychology from London University. She has lectured at Tel Aviv University, The Hebrew University, London and Munich Universities;...

Disagreements are an inseparable aspect of a complex, multi-dimensional system such as a family business. This is a well known secret! We encourage families to welcome disagreements and to turn crises into opportunities. We help family members to acquire communication skills, resolve past tensions and uncover the the sources of the conflict. At this point the road toward new solutions is clear and family members can restore trust and respect among them.

Two partners – whether they are siblings or friends that decided to start a business together at a young age have built special and intimate relationship: "We share secrets that we wouldn't even tell our spouses". They know each other's abilities very well, and their weaknesses, too. They complement each other, share challenges and achievements, accompany each other in choosing spouses and having children, rejoice in moving to a new house, support in the illness and death of parents and suffer the children's "growing pains" together. They are absorbed in the momentum of activity....

Can the quality of a sibling's partnership be predicted? We believe it can! A partnership of brothers or sisters is a partnership of destiny. They are born to the same family, with different genders and in a certain order: an older and younger brother, the second brother and fourth sister, five brothers, two sisters, twins, etc. This (imposed, if you will) partnership of destiny, grows and evolves in the family. Some siblings are closer than others. Between some siblings, abysses of pain may develop – which are expressed as infinite rage, permanent hatred and a continuous fight. In most...

A recent study of the differences between entrepreneurs and managers of family-owned businesses (Yanai, Yanai & Milo, 2007), concluded that entrepreneurs and managers tend to come from different family environments, that they had distinct motivations and passion quests and that the consulting process for these two groups should be equally distinctive. These findings supported the notion that family dynamics reveal people’s core emotional pain, which drives their personal quests and motivation, and leads to the roads along which they develop the legacies of past generations (Yanai, Yanai & Milo,...

In an international family business conference, held in Bilbao, Spain in 2002, Dr. Yanai & Dr Milo presented a live case, showing how families could use internal conflicts as a catalyst for change. In this workshop family members told the history of their conflict and were guided in a process that led them to a renewed dialogue in the family and the business. View this slide presentation to learn more about the importance of conflicts and some constructive ways to handle them.

Watch Orenia & Tamar discussing the family agreement. What is it and it's purpose and need within the family.

"Ami helped us understand the range of possibilities for the development of the family business. We considered these options while letting each family member choose his path for self fulfillment, either within or outside the family business. This process strengthened our communication and enriched relationships".