Journalling helped me through some of the toughest years I ever had.
It became more than just a daily practice. It opened a new ambition for me – to offer insights, advice, and hope through the lens of a life lived in the furnace of a family enterprise.
I write at the intersection of family enterprise, philosophy, and the harder questions of leadership and inheritance.
The articles collected here draw on the same material that produced my new book LEGACY: The Inheritance Paradox. It’s a deep dive into four generations of a family business, seventeen years of philosophical practice, and the conviction that the most specific, personal material reaches the widest audience.
The work collected here contains articles that:
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Posit a position
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Uncover and name a pattern
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Document a lived experience
Some are written for the professionals who navigate the connection of family and enterprise:
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The attorneys handling matrimonial and estate matters
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The business rescue practitioners who sit inside a family's worst year
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The mediators who hold the room when siblings cannot
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The wealth advisers and family office practitioners who understand that capital without continuity is a transaction, not a legacy.
Other articles are written for the principals themselves:
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The successors carrying a name they didn’t choose
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The patriarchs who can’t let go
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The spouses who absorb the cost of an enterprise they didn’t build
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Anyone who has inherited a life or a responsibility accepted, but never chose.
My hope is that these articles, as well as Family Legacies, The Practised Life, and LEGACY: The Inheritance Paradox will make your navigation of life and family enterprise that much more meaningful.
– TREVOR DICKINSON