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Managing family-owned businesses in challenging times: Extracts from Ricardo Bäcker’s Interview
The Argentine economy is a mess. So says Ricardo Bäcker, whose firm in Argentina recently did a strategic exercise in which they acknowledged that the deterioration of the local economy had led to...
Read More → February 2024The Company We Keep: Sonal Agrawal
Have you ever considered the profound insight embedded in the phrase, ‘Tell me the company you keep, and I will tell you what you are’? This age-old adage suggests that our associations and the...
Read More → February 2024The AltoPartners Spotlight on Mining: Talent Strategies for an Industry in Transition 2024
The AltoPartners Spotlight on Mining : Talent Strategies for an Industry in Transition (February 2024)” - Download document The mining industry has long been considered to be a contributor to...
Read More → February 2024The Director’s Dilemma – February 2024 Edition
Produced by Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Contribution by Julia Zdrahal-Urbanek, is...
Read More → January 2024Ask Alto: What are agile leadership principles and how can they help businesses cope with rapid change in 2024?
A month into 2024, there’s no doubt that it is going to be a challenging year. On the geopolitical front, 2024 will be a record-breaking year for elections. The World Economic Forum says more than...
Read More → January 2024Founders crucial to successful succession planning in family-owned businesses: Extracts from Joo-Lee Aw’s Interview
Many of Joo-Lee Aw’s clients as part of her work in the AltoPartners partnership comprise family-owned businesses, ranging from mid-sized companies to internationalised entities worth several...
Read More → January 2024Succession planning in family-owned businesses starts with culture: Extracts from Santiago Solis Arias’s interview
For Santiago Solis, the question of culture is all important in working with family-owned businesses. The AltoPartner’s member in Colombia has been part of two succession planning exercises - one...
Read More → January 2024Ask Alto: What is a micro-credential and should it be added to your CV?
From an evening workshop at the local high school to an internal corporate management workshop, almost everyone has taken part in a short-term learning experience at some point in their life. Some...
Read More → January 2024International Parity At Work Day 2024
Late in 2023, Harvard University professor Claudia Goldin became the third woman ever to receive the Nobel prize for economics. She was also the first woman to win it solo. Her revolutionary...
Read More → January 2024Taking the long view in family-owned businesses: Extracts from Albert Froom’s Interview
Albert Froom, who heads up AltoPartners’ family-owned businesses practice, says this about family-owned businesses: The first generation builds the company up The second generation builds it out...
Read More → December 2023AltoPartners Global White Paper “Solving the Puzzle On Succession Planning in Family-Owned Businesses: Global Insights and Trends 2023”
Involving the deliberate and systematic process of identifying, developing, and nurturing individuals within (or from outside) the family to take over key leadership roles when the current...
Read More → December 202311th Generation Cousin Consortium Business For the Future: In conversation with Renée de Kuyper
In conjunction with the publication of the AltoPartners Global White Paper “Solving the Puzzle On Succession Planning in Family-Owned Businesses : Global Insights and Trends 2023”, we share an...
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