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Balancing family and business needs with individuals’ skills and aspirations and forming healthy partnerships and collaboration between members of various generations, are at the foundation of successful continuity. AMI’s expertise in personal development and in partnerships’ relations, help our clients reach new solutions, define suitable roles and develop effective multi-generational partnerships.

Successful succession is based on a fine euqilibrium between business needs and individual aspirations and capabilities of the younger generation. It requires the establishment of inter-generation partnerships, as well as partnerships among siblings and cousins of the same generation. Our expertise in the development of careers and in the creation of partnerships, together with our understanding of organizations and management, enables each family member to choose an appropriate career path, while assuring the needed synchronization with business needs and organization structure.

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.

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,...