Institute for Family Business

The entrepreneurial spirit:  How to Sustain it in Founders and Foster it in The “Next Generation” -  presented by Dr. Steven Berglas

Dr. Steven Berglas is an executive coach and management consultant who spent over 30 years on the faculty of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry. Since 1989, Berglas has studied and written about entrepreneurs and family businesses, first as a columnist for Inc. Magazine, and currently for Forbes. He has published numerous articles in The New York Times and The Boston Globe. His book “Reclaiming the Fire: How People Overcome Burnout” was named one of the 75 smartest business books of all time by Fortune Magazine.

He has also been a regular guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dateline NBC, TODAY, The CBS Evening News, The Koppel Report, and Good Morning America.

Thurs, September 24, 2009

8:00 – 8:30 a.m. R Registration/Breakfast

8:30 – 11:30 a.m. P Program at Pacific’s Westgate Center for Management Development

E E Eberhardt School of Business

How can business founders and their heirs experience optimal levels of entrepreneurial spirit through their lives? Join us as we discuss:

• The forces fueling a family business founder’s untiring drive, and how to keep this burning at optimal levels.
• Why a founder’s heirs - typically advantaged from birth cannot avail themselves to their “head start” in life.
• How to help both generations in a family business understand, and have sympathy for, the unseen but incredibly potent, psychological burdens they experience

For Founders:

• How can I sustain my passion to achieve new heights when I owe it to my children to preserve the family fortune?
• How can I not retire against my will? I want to allow my children to manifest their desire to run a business, but I have no desire to ‘smell the roses’ and atrophy.
• Starting over is terrifying: How can I live-up to the press clippings I’ve amassed building my business?

For Heirs:

• How can I make a business my father built feel like my own?
• How can I pursue my passion to achieve and not, in psychological terms, slap my father in the face?
• How can I tell my parents, “It’s my turn” and not seem ungrateful?

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