From family business to family office: what breaks along the way
Most families don’t break while they own the business. They break afterwards, once it’s sold. And the reason isn’t money. Selling the family business is usually…
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Reflections
Third-generation therapies in the family business (III): acceptance and commitment, or the protocol turned into a cage
Third instalment in the series on third-generation therapies applied to family business. This time: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Series: third-generation therapies in the family business ·…
Read article →The Rise of the External General Counsel: What the Data Says, and What I See from Spain
I was recently talking to the Country Manager of the Spanish subsidiary of an American multinational. He had spent months putting out legal fires without anyone…
Read article →Third-generation therapies in the family business (II): behavioral activation, or paralysis by prudence
Second instalment in the series on third-generation therapies applied to family business. This time: behavioral activation therapy. Series: third-generation therapies in the family business · 1…
Read article →The In-House Legal Department Nobody Knows They Can Have
When a mid-sized company needs to resolve something legal, it almost always faces the same dilemma: call a law firm, or manage without specialised help until…
Read article →Critical Thinking and Postformal Thought: What Actually Protects a Professional Against AI
On what critical thinking actually is, how it differs from postformal thinking, and why the second skill is the one that truly protects a professional against…
Read article →Third-generation therapies in the family business (I): what behavioral science already knows, and hasn’t reached the family council yet
First installment of a series on third-generation therapies applied to family business. Series: third-generation therapies in the family business · 1 · 2 · 3 ·…
Read article →Assertive Lawyering: Neither Passive Nor Aggressive
Neither yielding nor attacking. Psychology has described a third way since 1949, and Spain's Organic Law 1/2025 is pushing lawyers towards it.
Read article →You’re not being empathetic, you’re being sympathetic
For years I thought I was tremendously empathetic. In reality, I was only being sympathetic. And the difference is enormous. When a friend told me about…
Read article →Survivorship Bias in the Legal Profession: Success or Attrition Tolerance?
This week, the business press picked up a debate that has been brewing in the legal sector for some time: the HR directors of the country’s…
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