It’s a most quoted statistic – “just 13% of family businesses survive the third generation” – and it has finally been challenged. It comes from a single study of US…
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This is the conundrum of wealth creator parents: they want to raise children to value the hard work that helped them create wealth, but at the same time pass them…
Remembering Holocaust Destruction vs Liberation
David shares how their annual family dinner that commemorates the Holocaust is a forward-looking rather than a backward-looking memorial. [Times of Israel]
A powerful and prominent family, and the religious institution they run. That was more than enough to pique my interest, and after rapidly working our way through three seasons of…
Three Family Lessons from Greenleaf
A powerful and prominent family, and the religious institution they run. That was more than enough to pique my interest, and after rapidly working our way through three seasons of…
Interviewed in INTHEBLACK Magazine
Following the successful launch of his book Transition, David was interviewed for an article in CPA Australia’s magazine INTHEBLACK. “12 commandments of the family business” discusses the challenges of mixing…
How to “Have” Jewish Grandchildren
Watch David in an ELI Talk on the intergenerational transmission of Judaism; source sheet for the talk is on Sefaria.
On the 11th of April, our family has for many years celebrating my father’s liberation from Buchenwald, in 1945. My mother would prepare a lavish banquet for the whole family. The…
Speaking at the PWM APAC Summit 2015
David will deliver a keynote address at the marcus evans PWM APAC Summit to be held on November 2-4, 2015 in Kuala Lumpur. He will share his insights as a second generation family member and entrepreneur…
Safeguarding the Chabad Ethos
As the reform process at the Yeshivah Centre continues, the term “safeguarding the Chabad ethos” has been bandied about quite a lot. But what does it mean? Some people have…
Yom Hashoa 5774-2014
In the first piece, following a celebration of anniversary of the Buchenwald liberation, David Werdiger looks to the past and to the future and considers the wonders of grandparent-hood [Times of Israel]….
Engaging the Next Generation
The balanced scorecard is one of the better-known strategic performance management tools commonly used to monitor large corporations or organizations. It recognizes that profit is not the only way to measure success,…
