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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.

Together with key family members, AMI helps the family business to make optimal placement decisions and promote executive development while taking sensitive family needs and professional business requirements into consideration.

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.

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.

Board of Directors and Family Councils are necessary governance systems, which provide responsible management of the family and the business, and protect one from the other. We guide our clients through the process of establishing governance systems, help them select external board members and accompany the Board and the Council through the launch period.

Once clear differentiation has been created between ownership, management and family, AMI assists its clients in deciding on the Board's composition, finding external members to serve on the Board and monitoring the launch of the Board of Director.

AMI helps to create balance between each individual family members’ strong commitment to the family business together with their personal skills and aspirations which always poses a serious challenge for family members. Dr. Yanai’s unique method for career development leads family members in exploring options and making choices.

Young and not-so-young family members are often torn between their deep commitment to the family business, and their desire to fulfill their own dreams and talents. Dr. Yanai's unique methodology for personal development, helps family members consider options, make choices and continue to develop their career, inside or outside of the family business.

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....

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.

"When we wanted to establish our family institutions, develop ownership strategies, enhance family members' careers and execute our succession plan, AMI was there. Through coordinated teamwork, we obtained the commitment of the entire family to get the work done."