The Impossible Dilemma: Strategy Nailed - Now Get the Result. A Confidentially Speaking webinar with John Downes
A Confidentially Speaking and #CriticalFewActions™ Webinar.
Elise Margow and John Downes are dab hands at dealing with impossible dilemmas.
One of the most common — and combustible — conflicts they address? Siblings in business trying to agree on strategic direction. It’s one of the perennial fault lines of family enterprise: legacy, identity, power, childhood roles and commercial reality colliding in the boardroom.
Elise and John tackle a scenario many founders quietly fear:
You built the business. You want your three children to take it forward — together.
But:
• One is a natural leader who could drive the legacy forward;
• One is captivated by bold but unrealistic ideas;
• The third, now 40, is still replaying childhood hang-ups.
Your greatest desire is harmony. Your greatest risk is fracture.
How do you build a strategic plan they will genuinely agree on — and actually implement — without destroying both the foundation and the future?
Elise and John explore how to get three brothers onto the same strategic page rather than pistols at dawn.
This conversation unpacks:
• The hidden dynamics that derail family business strategy
• How to separate role from identity
• Turning emotional history into constructive alignment
• Building agreement that survives implementation