4th Generation Inheritor, Coach & Author of Disruptive Successor
Jonathan Goldhill doesn't know exactly how his family's business ended, because nobody kept the history. Why a family should name a historian.
Jonathan Goldhill
Coach to family businesses and fourth-generation inheritor; author of Disruptive Successor
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The Business Family Diagnostic · Story
Name a family historian.
Jonathan's family journals were too long for anyone to read, and the story of how the business ended is lost. Have the older members of your family been recorded in their own words?
“The founding story and its lessons are recorded somewhere beyond people's memories.”
Biography
Jonathan Goldhill is an experienced coach to entrepreneurs and family-owned businesses. He states that the dwindling chances of multigenerational success are due in large part to the issues unique to family businesses that are often wrapped up in a tightly woven knot of unspoken plans.
In his book Disruptive Successor, Jonathan offers a proven framework and playbook for unwinding this knot, scaling up your business or planning your exit.
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