The concluding case in Trevor Dickinson's Family Legacies series rewrites his 2006 succession memorandum as a seven-part sequence for continuity, closing with five reflective questions for principals planning their own family's transition.

A case study exploring one founder's experience of succession, the fusion of identity with his enterprise, his resistance to stepping back, and the toll of retirement without a second act. A companion piece to Twenty Years On.

In January 2006, a forty year old successor tabled a seven proposition memorandum to restructure his fourth generation family enterprise. It was rejected within days. Twenty years on, following a business rescue and an approach from distressed capital, its architecture finally took effect.