Respect. Integrity. Teamwork. While they look nice hanging on the wall of your family office, values as pleasant-sounding concepts only get you so far.
For example, what does respect look like in your family outside the boardroom? If nobody can answer that, that means the words on the wall aren’t pulling their weight.
To move your values from a sign above the door to a shared purpose, each person must first decipher their own values—and learning to embrace the differences that surface in that process is what makes a family more resilient, not less.
Listen to this installment from Family Business Partnership to begin your own family office values audit.
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