In my opinion, the three core competencies for success of a family business successors are : Drive with a vision, Initiative with pursuance for achievement, and Creativity for Innovation , which are likely to ensure sustainable development and growth of the business.
In Family Business, the leader cares for your company. Fundamentally it is important commitment, motivation and adaptation. The commitment gives confidence and provides stable relationships with their stakeholders.
I am working on a research oh the impact of Entrepreneurship education on non-business graduate students at my institution. One of the objectives of the program is to develop the students' positive attitudes towards entrepreneurship as an opportunity and alternative for their career options.
To Prof Kumar, I am agree that ability to sustain the market relation through better networking and profit oriented is essential. Besides creativity would support it as well
To: Jaharkati: I am agree, especially drive and initiative, which it's a part of collaboration on developing the creativity. Commonly, the structure organization of family business is vertical or paternalistic.
In my opinion, the first thing is creativity. Especially in the italian context, I see many big family firms born from an innovative idea of a grandfather that are not more able to innovate when the rudder passes to successors. They tend to focus on respect for tradition rather than innovation, and this undermine their surviving probability. I agree on commitment as second most important competency. The third is openness toward members who are outside the family. Also in this case, the italian case is emblematic. The italian family firms tend to search employee/manager always inside the family, and in doing so, they are not permeable to new ideas.