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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.

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 conducts 1-2 days workshops, designed for the owners and their families. In the comfortable atmosphere of a retreat, away from their everyday stresses, they discuss issues of continuity, estate planning, future ownership and future development of the business. Often these workshops are remembered as the turning point in the life of the family and the owners. Once the direction is clear and agreed upon, the journey can take off.

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,...

Based on years of experience in consultation and career development with owners and managers of enterprises, the authors depict a psychological portrait of the typical entrepreneur, versus the typical manager, along with their "passion quests" and distinct relations to the business. A central tool used to enrich both the counseling of and the dialogue between entrepreneurs and managers is the understanding of their family dynamics. It is suggested that each comes from a different family dynamic with different energy sources and motivations. Entrepreneurs were often raised in relatively...