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Leadership Insights
Case Study: Developing a Multi-Generational Family and Non-Family Leadership Team
Situation A prominent family-owned water and wastewater solutions company. The owners of the company, two brothers, had no succession...
Case Study: Who is Going to Succeed Our Firm's Managing Partner?
Situation This client was a prominent professional services firm, with an international reputation. The prior succession process had...
Case Study: A Supermarket Family
Situation Family: Elderly father, founder and CEO; two brothers, COO & CFO; third brother, passive owner; elderly mother, Chief Emotional...
Case Study: The CEO’s Right-Hand Person Shouldn’t Have Been
Situation The main character in this story was the COO of a high‐tech company, of middle‐market size. The CEO was extremely ambivalent...
Case Study: Saving a High-Performance Team from Its Ineffectual Leader
Situation Having thrown her arms up in the air, this Leader’s manager called us with a laundry list of complaints about this relatively...
Case Study: Preventing a High-Potential Female Leader from Leaving
Situation A fast-track executive was dissatisfied with her career path and was close to exiting. Her boss was distressed when he learned...
Case Study: Stalling for 12 Years to Transfer the Family Business
Situation Family: Elderly father/founder; two brothers and a sister are active; one brother is a passive owner; elderly mother is an...
Case Study: Parents are Business Partners, But are at Odds
Situation Family: Parents were co‐founders; one son (John) and daughter (Sue) are active; another son (James) is a passive owner....
Case Study: If Your People Survey Results Are Dreadful, What Should You Do?
Situation The setting for this Organizational Effectiveness project was a Firm that spanned across seven states, 120 partners, and 1500...
Case Study: Dad, Mom, and the Boys
Situation Family: A Father in his 60s and two sons in their 30s, both active in the business. Father founded it in 1984. Business: A...
Case Study: A New Director Transformed Into a Leader
Situation This Case Study tells the story of a key contributor who was a well‐respected employee in the area of finance and who had...
Case Study: A Multi-Faceted Entertainment Company
Situation A privately‐held company that was newly acquired by a Fortune 500 company A new president who rose through the ranks of the...
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