by Richard Seaman | Dec 21, 2020 | Multigenerational Family Business
Photo by Kassandra Kaczmarek, age 16 Dances in the Rain, Acryli, Children’s Hospital Collection 2014 – #121554 Part of my holiday tradition is to send out a letter reflecting on the past year. I am sharing my letter for 2020 below, as it reflects many of the...
by Richard Seaman | Oct 28, 2020 | Multigenerational Family Business
Photo by olegdudko / 123rf.com Family businesses have unique cultures. Multigenerational family businesses continue to thrive because they remain focused on the principles and values that define those unique cultures. These values may include innovation, work ethic,...
by Richard Seaman | Sep 23, 2020 | Multigenerational Family Business
Photo by Deyan Georgiev / 123rf.com As we continue to confront the COVID-19 crisis, family business owners are being called on to guide their businesses through the crisis. Family members who work directly in the business will feel this imperative most strongly,...
by Richard Seaman | May 7, 2020 | Entrepreneurship, Multigenerational Family Business
Copyright: dolgachov / 123rf.com Seaman Corporation recently responded to a call to donate fabric to a project to make field hospital cots for pop-up medical centers serving patients during the COVID-19 crisis. A group of businesses from Northeast Ohio...
by Richard Seaman | Apr 1, 2020 | Multigenerational Family Business, Uncategorized
Copyright : jakobradlgruber / 123rf.com Lessons from Businesses that Last Multi-generational family businesses learn to expect economic disruptions. In the last century, there have been many: world wars, the Great Depression, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the 2008...
by Richard Seaman | Feb 11, 2020 | Entrepreneurship, Multigenerational Family Business
Photo by dolgachov / 123rf.com It was the summer of 1966. I was a rising senior at Bowling Green State University in Toledo, Ohio, and I had convinced my father, then the founder and president of our family’s textile business, to allow me to take a three-week trip...
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