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Keeping It Professional When You Work in a Family Business

Harvard Business

When your manager is also your parent, sibling, or another relative, how do you keep things professional? Case Study #1: Work elsewhere before climbing the family ladder. Toby Bozzutto’s father, Tom, never asked him if he wanted to work in the family real estate management company. Completely meld work and family.

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The Connection Between Employee Trust and Financial Performance

Harvard Business

This was the headquarters of Campbell Soup Company when one of us, Doug Conant, took the reins as CEO in 2001. We can use practices from Doug’s approach to the trust-building competency over his 40-year leadership career as a case study for the behaviors leaders should develop as they work to build and sustain trust.