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Learn How to Turn Adversity Into Opportunity
Learn How to Turn Adversity Into Opportunity“Use adversity as a bridge to your destiny.” Those are nice words to live by, especially if it works and your destiny turns out to be fulfilling and rewarding. People probably view Mark Victor Hansen’s destiny as a...
When it Comes to Vendors and Services, Size Matters
When it Comes to Vendors and Services, Size MattersWhen you’re evaluating outside vendors or services for your family office clients, is the size of the company you’re looking at one of your important considerations? It was a crucial screen for my late husband, Frank...
Shifting to a High-Functioning Family
Shifting to a High-Functioning FamilyYou’ve heard of a Tale of Two Cities by Dickens, right? Today’s topic is a Tale of Two Families and the person who can tell the story is Steve Legler, a family business speaker, author, and advisor. The two families he has in mind...
Are You Paying Attention to Both Parts of Succession Planning?
Are You Paying Attention to Both Parts of Succession Planning?There are two major components of family business succession, but all too often family business owners focus on only one. The result is missed opportunities and the potential for family dysfunction. The two...
Your Family’s Greatest Heirloom
Your Family’s Greatest Heirloom“There’s nothing greater you can give your family than this,” says Jamie Yuenger, founder of StoryKeep. “Provide those who come after you with the tools for personal, emotional, and spiritual success.” The way to do this, she believes,...
Want your family business to last ? Five tips for getting there.
Want your family business to last ? Five tips for getting there. View ArticleSearch ArticlesLatest ArticlesSubscribe to UpdatesAbout AuthorMitzi Perdue is the widow of the poultry magnate, Frank Perdue. She’s the author of How To Make Your Family Business Last and 52...
Fourteen Ways to Help Clients Avoid Fortune Hunters
Fourteen Ways to Help Clients Avoid Fortune Hunters View ArticleSearch ArticlesLatest ArticlesSubscribe to UpdatesAbout AuthorMitzi Perdue is the widow of the poultry magnate, Frank Perdue. She’s the author of How To Make Your Family Business Last and 52 Tips to...
It Wasn’t Raining When Noah Built the Ark: Prepare for Family Business Quarrels Now
It Wasn’t Raining When Noah Built the Ark: Prepare for Family Business Quarrels Now View ArticleSearch ArticlesLatest ArticlesSubscribe to UpdatesAbout AuthorMitzi Perdue is the widow of the poultry magnate, Frank Perdue. She’s the author of How To Make Your Family...
Wealth Transfer? The Entire Family Is Your Client
Wealth Transfer? The Entire Family Is Your ClientThirty-eight years ago, Karl Bareither, a Wealth Transfer Specialist, (WTS) commissioned a survey of family businesses. It changed his life, it changed his clients’ lives, and if you advise family businesses, it could...
You Might Think Work-Life Balance Isn’t about you–But It Is!
You Might Think Work-Life Balance Isn’t about YOU–But It Is!YOU MIGHT THINK WORK-LIFE BALANCE ISN’T ABOUT YOU––BUT IT IS! Do you feel that you’ve got too many balls in the air? That things are out of control? That you don’t have time for what should be the most...
Why Family Businesses Break Down — and What to Do about It
Why Family Businesses Break Down — and What to Do about ItAdrienne Penta has a disturbing statistic for us, and nested inside it is yet another disturbing statistic. As Senior Vice President for Private Banking with Brown Brothers Harriman, Penta knows that: 70% of...
Your Family Businesses Is Both Socialist and Capitalist: Take Advantage of this!
Your Family Businesses Is Both Socialist and Capitalist: Take Advantage of this!The relationships in family businesses are vastly more complicated than the relationships in a publically-owned business. Cathy Carroll has a brilliant explanation of why this is so, and...
Business Articles
Want your family business to last ? Five tips for getting there.
Want your family business to last ? Five tips for getting there. View ArticleSearch ArticlesLatest ArticlesSubscribe to UpdatesAbout AuthorMitzi Perdue is the widow of the poultry magnate, Frank Perdue. She’s the author of How To Make Your Family Business Last and 52...
Fourteen Ways to Help Clients Avoid Fortune Hunters
Fourteen Ways to Help Clients Avoid Fortune Hunters View ArticleSearch ArticlesLatest ArticlesSubscribe to UpdatesAbout AuthorMitzi Perdue is the widow of the poultry magnate, Frank Perdue. She’s the author of How To Make Your Family Business Last and 52 Tips to...
It Wasn’t Raining When Noah Built the Ark: Prepare for Family Business Quarrels Now
It Wasn’t Raining When Noah Built the Ark: Prepare for Family Business Quarrels Now View ArticleSearch ArticlesLatest ArticlesSubscribe to UpdatesAbout AuthorMitzi Perdue is the widow of the poultry magnate, Frank Perdue. She’s the author of How To Make Your Family...
An Economic Time Bomb for Life Insurance Owners
An Economic Time Bomb for Life Insurance Owners View ArticleSearch ArticlesLatest ArticlesSubscribe to UpdatesAbout AuthorMitzi Perdue is the widow of the poultry magnate, Frank Perdue. She’s the author of How To Make Your Family Business Last and 52 Tips to Combat...
A New Way to Engage Next Gens in the Family Business
A New Way to Engage Next Gens in the Family BusinessWhat if Facebook met LinkedIn and decided to have a Family Business baby? In Esrock’s view, people in family businesses have a need for the kinds of information and encouragement that are unique to members of family...
Embedding The Family’s Values by Creating an Ethical Will
Embedding The Family’s Values by Creating an Ethical WillOriginal Article written by Mitzi can be found here. Much as I admired Frank Perdue for his success with his family poultry business, I admired him even more for his success as a family man. Since the happiness...
Strategies to Preserve Your Family Business
Strategies to Preserve Your Family BusinessOriginally from http://www.familybusinessmagazine.com/mitzi-perdue%E2%80%99s-strategies-preserve-your-company-family-businessThe widow of Frank Perdue, longtime president and CEO of Perdue Farms, offers nine suggestions on...
It Takes A Tough Man To Choose A Good Advertising Agency
It Takes A Tough Man To Choose A Good Advertising AgencyIf you lived on the East Coast of the United States and are over 40, you probably know who Frank Perdue was. But for those of you who didn’t and aren’t, Frank was a Maryland farmer/entrepreneur who transformed a...
Environmental Articles
Cleaning Up After Oil Spills
Cleaning Up After Oil SpillsDo Water and Oil Mix? Assume for a moment that you’re a betting kind of person. Would you accept a bet that oil and water don’t mix? You wouldn’t accept the bet if you visited the National Oil Spill Response Test Facility in Leonardo, New...
Fungi: The Forest’s Digestive System
Fungi: The Forest’s Digestive SystemFungi are a Forest’s Digestive System “It’s beautiful, isn’t it?” The man asking this question is Lance Biechele, a man who’s been studying mushrooms for 35 years. He’s looking at a dead maple tree, and to the untrained eye, this...
Fisheries Need a Timeout – Unfortunately
Fisheries Need a Timeout – UnfortunatelyThe fishing industry is a paradox. Worldwide, the industry faces a crisis. Dozens of fisheries are no longer commercially viable because we’re harvesting fish faster than they’re being replaced. According to fisheries expert...
What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs?
What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs?Pop quiz time! When did the dinosaurs go extinct? A. 65 million years ago B. 5 million years ago C. They didn’t go extinct and if you walk outside today, you may see one. Up until a few years ago, most people would say the first...
The World’s Reference Library for Minerals
The World’s Reference Library for MineralsWhat is the most widely viewed museum object in the world? The answer is, the Smithsonian’s Hope Diamond. If you’re one of the roughly 30 million people who will be visiting the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C....
Saving Walden Woods
Saving Walden WoodsWhat do the following people have in common? Author James Michner, former President Jimmy Carter, actress Whoopi Goldberg, and food company executive John Tyson? They, along with dozens of other celebrities, have joined with singer Don Henley from...
A Treasure Trove for Future Generations
A Treasure Trove for Future GenerationsThe Rosy Periwinkle The rosy periwinkle doesn’t look like a plant that’s worth $200 million a year. Except that its flowers are pink, it resembles the blue periwinkle commonly used as ground cover. To the desperate parents of...
Blood and Bone Marrow Transplantation
Blood and Bone Marrow TransplantationImagine for a moment that you personally rescued someone from death. Imagine the joy and gratitude of the family and the good feeling you’d have the rest of your life. Sound good? Dr. Chi Van Dang from Johns Hopkins Hospital has a...
The Smithsonian’s Illicit Beginning
The Smithsonian’s Illicit BeginningAn Illicit Romance As the Smithsonian Institution celebrates its 150th anniversary, consider two important facts. First the Smithsonian plays an enormous role in helping to preserve our national heritage. Second, the Institution...
Philanthropy Columns
Salisbury Substance Abuse Community Center
Salisbury Substance Abuse Community Center The man who built the sliding partition If you ever visit the Salisbury Substance Abuse Community Center (SSACC), notice the sliding partition that, when pulled shut, cuts the main hall in half. The carpentry is nicely done....
Big Brothers / Big Sisters
Big Brothers / Big SistersAs someone who isn’t that far from middle age, Diane Zielinski didn’t expect to attend pro wrestling matches or monster truck rallies. And what she really didn’t expect was to find that she would enjoy them. How did this happen to her? What’s...
Red Cross
Red CrossImagine something really, really terrible. It’s 3:00 a.m. and your house has just burned down. You and the family just escaped with your lives. However, your wallet, your ID, your day time clothes, your glasses, even the medications you need are smoldering...
Habitat For Humanity: Placing People in Safer Homes
Habitat For Humanity: Placing People in Safer Homes Denise’s Story Denise Copeland woke up one night with a really unpleasant sensation. She thought she heard something suspicious, but couldn’t be sure. She tried telling herself that it was nothing. Then her two...
Diakonia
Diakonia Diakonia is an emergency homeless shelter serving people in Worcester County. However, it’s far more than just a place to eat and sleep. The word, “Diakonia” is a New Testament Greek word meaning “compassionate love towards the needy.” If you were to visit...
A Wonderful Present: Better Health.
A Wonderful Present: Better Health.Amy Hansen’s Best Holiday Gift Amy Hansen gave herself just about the best holiday gift possible. Once you know about it, you may want the same thing for yourself. Actually, it’s not strictly accurate to have it appear that it was...
Review of The Way To Eat
Review of The Way To Eat Have you seen any of the Public Service Announcements encouraging people to join Healthy U’s “Let’s all read the same book” program? The book they’re talking about is The Way to Eat by David Katz. Before we get into any comments about the...
Healing and Mental Attitude
Healing and Mental Attitude What could beat the excitement, drama, and fulfillment of being a nurse working in critical care? For Dr. Cynthia Howard, who had years of experience as a critical care nurse before becoming a psychologist practicing here in Salisbury,...
The Company That Banned Birthday Cakes
The Company That Banned Birthday CakesWant to hear something shocking? Barnone, the call center located in Winterplace Park has just banned birthday cakes. Are they hard-hearted Scrooge-type people who just don’t want anyone to have any fun? Actually, the answer is...
Women’s Health
Infertility: Advances In Treatment
Infertility: Advances In TreatmentAge and Infertility are Linked Infertility affects roughly 12% of women. By the time a woman is in her early 40s, her chance of infertility rises to 20%. It’s a particularly difficult problem for the older woman because the quality...
A Diabetes Management, Current Therapies
A Diabetes Management, Current Therapies The Bionic Pancreas Offers New Hope For type 1 Diabetes There’s good news for those with type 1 diabetes. The FDA has just approved a device (Medtronic MiniMed 670G) that automates keeping their blood sugar at healthy levels. ...
Transgender Medicine
Transgender MedicineYou Are Likely to Have Transgender Patients All health care providers are going to have a transgender person as a patient at some point. Statistically, roughly one person in 200 has a gender identity that differs from the sex they were assigned at...
Candida Treatment for Simple and Recurrent Cases
Candida Treatment for Simple and Recurrent CasesA Large Number of Women Will Experience a Candida Infection in their Lives In the United States, 75% of women will have a vulvovaginal Candida infection during their lifetimes. In any one year, this means 13 million...
Help For Sexual Dysfunction
Help For Sexual DysfunctionSexual Dysfunction is Common Forty-four percent of women have a sexual complaint. 32% experiencing a lack of desire, 27% not experiencing orgasm, and 21% having pain during sex. Although 44% have a sexual complaint, not all of these women...
Cognitive Problems: Often They’re Treatable
Cognitive Problems: Often They’re Treatable Dementia and Specifically Alzheimer's Disease Dementia are for More Common Than Statistics Indicate The statistic that 5.5 million people in the United States have Alzheimer’s disease dementia is an underestimate. My...
Breast Cancer: Don’t Over diagnose, Do Improve Lifestyle
Breast Cancer: Don't Over diagnose, Do Improve LifestyleAvoid Overdiagnosis When you screen a healthy population for breast cancer, you’re going to get over-diagnosis. This has become particularly evident. As screening practices switched from film-based mammography to...
Pelvic Pain: A Different Approach To Treatment
Pelvic Pain: A Different Approach To Treatment Pelvic Pain Is Common And Can Be Debilitating At any one time, as many as 20 percent of reproductive-age women may be experiencing pelvic pain. This can range from a mild ache that comes and goes to steady and severe...
Headaches and Hormones
Headaches and Hormones Most Headaches Seen By Primary Care Physicians Are Migraines Ninety percent of patients who see their Primary Care Physician (PCP) for a headache are there because of a migraine headache. Further, almost 30% of patients in a PCP’s waiting room...