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Dr. Tamar Milo is a psychologist, specializing in organizational and management change. She has mapped and led transformational change processes for leading Israeli and international companies in traditional industries and in Hi-Tech. / / She is the co-founder of AMI-Family Business Consulting, a consulting firm that assists partners and business owning families in establishing agreements, launching governance systems and conducting successful succession processes. / / Tamar holds a BA in Psychology and Education from the Hebrew University and an MA in Clinical Psychology from Bar-Ilan University....

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.

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...