Étiquette : family values
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When Greed Fuels Risk
A Pirate’s Tale When working in wealth management, family offices, or luxury services, one quickly observes two distinct profiles among professionals and leaders. You’ll forgive me for borrowing from maritime vocabulary: there are pirates, and there are captains. Pirates are primarily motivated by immediate personal gain. They excel at identifying and exploiting tensions, governance gaps,…
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The Pursuit of Money or the Great Illusion of the Family Office
This article was written initially in French, and has been translated to English with the help of AI. You can read the original version here : As the world of family offices becomes increasingly publicized and known to a wider audience, we are witnessing a big transformation of this industry, one that was originally, and…
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Nothing to lose and All to gain
How family offices can promote this mindset when, in fact, there is actually a lot to lose? During the last weeks, I have been hearing this phrase a lot : « You have nothing to lose! » A few days ago, I read a post on LinkedIn from successful tech and real estate entrepreneur Jonathan Anguelov about…
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The Evolution of Luxury and how family offices can support it
« It is only to the happy, that tears are a luxury. » I was only 15 when I first get on board a yacht. She was a beautiful 72′ sail boat and I think I will never forget her. The beauty of the lines, the profound colour of multicoated varnished handrail, the wool carpet under my…
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Money & Power, a « complicated » relationship?
Working with HNWI and families for years, I was faced with the topic of power very early, as power, it seems, is inherent in money. In the family office space, it is rather mandatory, or highly recommended, to ask the question of the representation of money and wealth to the family. What does wealth represent…
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Using Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in the family office
How to understand the hierarchy of human needs, and integrate the concept into the working place? Have you already heard about the pyramid or hierarchy of needs by Maslow? Written by Abraham Maslow, an american psychologist, in 1943, the theory presents a framework suggesting that human motivation stems from a hierarchy of five fundamental categories:…
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Defining your family values
A first step to instill vision for your family office A successful family office strategy requires clarity and distinctiveness at the core of operations, defining and aligning on a shared future purpose among family members (often across multiple generations with diverse perspectives and motivations), relentless leadership, a strong focus on operations, detailed execution and a…
Elodie Rojas 