Family Business
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The Ultimate Awakening for Family Business Succession Planning
Most founders I meet are not worried about the business.They are worried about what will happen to it and to their family after they are gone. But somewhere deeper, there is another question they rarely say out loud.Did I build a business, or did the business build a cage? This video is for every founder… Continue reading
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Preparing to Sell Is Not the End of the Story. It Is the Best Chapter.
Vikram Singhania spent 34 years building a logistics company in Pune. When his only daughter chose medicine over management, he made a decision most founders avoid. He decided to sell. Not out of defeat. Out of love for the business, and for what it deserved. But when the first serious buyer walked in, something uncomfortable… Continue reading
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Who will handle after you?
It started with a simple question.“Do you know where all the investments are?” The room went quiet.Not because there was no money.There was enough: savings, insurance, mutual funds, a house, and a few fixed deposits.But because only one person had ever really known everything.And he wasn’t there anymore. Until that moment, life had felt secure.Bills… Continue reading
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Breaking Free: The Family Business Guide to Succession, Exit, Inheritance, and Life Beyond Business
https://lnkd.in/dAiZstaJ Praise:Monika Halan – Writer, Author, Chairperson SEBI Advisory Committee for IPEF“As young India embraces entrepreneurship, it is important to think the journey through. This book helps you do that with clarity and foresight.” Dr. Annurag Batra – Chairman & Editor-in-Chief, BW Businessworld“This is the most comprehensive and needed guide for India’s business families. It… Continue reading
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The Purpose of Succession Planning is Bigger than Business
Ramesh started with nothing. A small town in Rajasthan. A borrowed bicycle. A trunk full of textile samples and a hunger that had no off switch. By 55, he had factories in three cities, 400 employees, and a net worth his younger self couldn’t have imagined. His daughter got married that year. A grand wedding.… Continue reading
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Why Succession Planning in India Doesn’t Start, It Gets Triggered?
In most Indian MSME families, it doesn’t begin. It gets triggered. The founder had just recovered from a mild heart attack. Nothing catastrophic, the doctors said. But something had shifted at home. Conversations that were never needed earlier suddenly became urgent.Who will take over?Who will handle finances?What happens if something changes again? Until that moment,… Continue reading
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Why Must a Founder Be Able to Understand the Balance Sheet?
When reviewing a balance sheet for a recent acquisition, I saw a “garden” that looked perfect at first glance. Profits were blooming, but cash flow had withered to just 10% of the previous year. That’s not a rounding error; that’s a distress signal. Many founders look at a balance sheet like a school report card:… Continue reading
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Do You Know a Profitable Business Can Still Be Financially Sick?
A mid-sized business of Mr. Rajkumar looked successful from the outside.Revenue had grown.The office was impressive.The team was expanding.And the profit numbers looked respectable. But while reviewing the balance sheet, a different story began to emerge.Receivables had sharply increased.Inventory was rising faster than sales.Working capital borrowings had climbed significantly.And operating cash flow had weakened badly.… Continue reading
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Why do we avoid difficult conversations?
A Delhi court recently said something that should worry and, therefore, awaken family businesses. The Sunjay Kapoor family dispute, it observed, had the potential to pale the Mahabharata. Let that sink in. The Mahabharata, a war that destroyed an entire dynasty, wiped out generations, and left a kingdom in ruins, was being used as a… Continue reading
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He Kept His Sons Together. That Was His Biggest Mistake.
Every founder I have met wanted the same thing.One family. One business. One table.It felt like love. It looked like legacy.It was neither. Because what the father saw at that table was harmony. What was actually happening beneath it was a slow accumulation of resentments, unspoken rivalries, suppressed ambitions, and silent scores being kept. The… Continue reading
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