Orchestrating Winning Performance

Leading the family business: leveraging complexity for outperformance
(8.30 - 12.30)

Leading the family business: leveraging complexity for outperformance (8.30-12.30)

With Professor Joachim Schwass

Family businesses are highly complex structures. The overlap of family, ownership and business interests typically entails often destructive conflicts. This stream highlights a structured and integrative approach to these complexities, turning them into competitive advantages. Advanced lessons from winning family businesses of the IMD-Lombard Odier Global Family Business Award bring the strategies and governance structures alive and applicable to all generations of family businesses.

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Program Overview | Description, dates and fees | OWP spirit | Related programs | Team Offers | Program Content | Program structure | Morning plenary sessions | New frontiers in decision making | Feeling good about making money: social responsibility and cash flow | Building a corporate culture in the 21st century | Governance successes and failures around the world | The power of China in the new world | Morning streams | Leading at the edge: how to bring out the best in yourself and others | Leading the family business: leveraging complexity for outperformance (8.30 - 12.30) | Navigating the future | Customer star: how to build a customer-centric organization | Leadership journeys: exploring the dynamics of power, collaboration, trust and authenticity | Strategic partnerships to gain competitive advantage | From scenarios to strategic priorities: getting your team aligned | Feeling crushed by complexity? Effective ways to simplify your business | Re-inventing the private sector: new business models | Leading the global enterprise: confronting new discontinuities | Afternoon insight sessions | Afternoon streams | BRICs and beyond: lessons from emerging markets | Driving innovation: from simply more dollars to social change | Leading for sustainable supply chain operations | Breaking the code: winning through entrepreneurial action | Building learning organizations | Mergers and acquisitions: a strategic finance view | The hard and soft, big and small, good, bad, and ugly sides of change | Creating dream teams: is it possible? | Moving up to enterprise leader: the Seven Seismic Shifts? | Actionable growth ideas: capitalizing on new business opportunities | Keynote speakers | John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief, The Economist | Yves Rossy, Jetman | James T. Hackett, Chairman & CEO, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation | Faculty Insights | Publications | Videos | Alumni | Alumni community