Articles by Greg McCann

Meeting the Need for “White Space” in these Complex Times
Finding quality time for reflection with a neutral, objective person who has your best interests at heart, such as a coach.

Difficult Conversations: A Process not an Event
How to have the difficult conversation with a client when you can’t predict the future or even know the answer. A few pointers are listening and validating feelings, write out your thoughts ahead of time to help you stay focused, stay grounded in your values and adapt your approach to how you think the other person wants to be treated.

Optimizing Your Leadership in Your SFO in Turbulent Times
Why leading a Single Family Office is especially challenging in these turbulent times

The Benefits of Coaching for Rising Gen Leadership
Two things you can do today, get a coach and find a peer coach (and how to do this effectively), objective feedback and lead to success

How to Accelerate Your Effectiveness as a Leader
The benefits of having a coach: finding white space, having someone deeply listen, and how having a coach broadens your options and self-awareness.

How Coaching Can Help Deepen Your Awareness and Drive More Effective Action
An approach to coaching that best serves the circumstances, helps you achieve your goals, and maximize your potential.

The Need for a New Family Enterprise Mindset
Helping leaders develop a wider range of capacities and cultivating the agility for that circumstance, especially during the COVID-19 Crisis.

Making Family Businesses Future-Proof
The practices and qualities that enable family-owned firms to thrive through volatile times.

Vertical Leadership in Family Enterprise: Alchemy for Innovative Leaders
Agile leaders are changing how they think and feel. Learn what is new in leadership development.

Awareness and Action: Transforming a Family Business via Family Enterprise and Vertical Leadership
Read how evolving toward the family enterprise concept shifts the family’s identity and how vertical leadership can help.

A Family Business Consultant: An Option Worth Considering
What is the really underlying issue here and why is the family stuck?

Family Business Goes to College
Explore how being in the next generation can shape your educational choices

What If? The New “Normal” and Its Implications for Family Business
Re-think how family business is viewed, what if it wasn’t assumed that passing a business on to the next generation is the best strategy?

Synergy for Your Family Business
Coordinating your family business consultant with your advisors

The Real Reason Why We Don’t Plan
Look deeper into the issue that affects all generations

Wealth & Power in Family Business
It may not be as fun as it looks…

Who Are You? How Your Character Affects Behavior
Learn how to be aware of how your behavior is being interpreted

Why Your Character is Important
How are you perceived by others? Did you know your character can change, discover how.

Business Family Style: The Economic Value of Thinking like a Family-Owned Enterprise
Read how family-owned enterprises are Incorporating concepts like interdependency, community and sustainability into a business management model.

Equip Your Family For Success in Today’s World
Successful families are becoming more aligned with their values to handle the greater stress and complexity arising from today’s exponential rate of change.

What They See is What You Get
Family enterprise guru Greg McCann discusses applied intelligence, a slippery concept that is nevertheless crucial to business success

It’s Your Reputation…
Credibility must be earned — no one, not your parents, not your spouse, and certainly not your mentor can give it to you.

A Path of Your Own
It is a big challenge, especially as a young person, to not let your parents write your script. No matter how good the script, if you don’t write it you will never accomplish true success.

Gen Y: Engaging or Enraging?
There are over 75 million Gen Yers entering the workforce. Here’s how the newbies and their elders can manage the challenges.