Essays from Word & Deed
The Other Inheritance
A fortnightly essay by Alexander on what families pass on besides money.
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A free five-day email course for the families of people who built a business, a farm or a practice. It begins with our ten questions card, and afterwards you will receive the fortnightly essay.
First essays
In preparation
- 1Your family will inherit what you built. Will they know why?
- 2Why parents tell their children one version of their life
- 3The hard years are the inheritance
- 4Can you name your eight great-grandparents? On how long family memory lasts.
- 5What the succession plan leaves out
- 6When the business is sold, the story leaves with it
- 7The questions that open a closed story
- 8Five myths about memoirs
