Teaching, Coaching and Supporting Business Families

I research, speak and consult on large family businesses, entrepreneurship and leadership based on my experience as a CEO, management professor, advisor and psychotherapist.
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If you would like to have a brief discussion about how I may be able to help you with your unique family business challenges or clients, contact me at randel.carlock@insead.edu

Latest Articles

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Nov 2016  TODAY Singapore
Teamwork — the Everest way
Professor Carlock's article on the importance of shared goals, based on his interview with Singapore Women's Everest team leader Sim Yi Hui  at the FT Family Business Forum Asia.  Read the full article here
Oct 2016  싱가포르=박정현 기자
South Korea's Weekly Chosun Biz  Professor Carlock's views on Family Business.  Download the article in Korean 
时代财智专题:
​新加坡的‘女头家’
Mar/Apr 2016
The  Chinese edition of Fortune Times features Professor Randel Carlock sharing about Board Diversity and Women In Leadership Positions
Singapore Business Times
Apr 2015 ​The three 'theatrical acts' of the family business leader 

South China Morning Post
Jun 2015  The teddy bear solution to family business conflict 
Nov 2013 Meditation an effective way to improve performance 
Oct 2013  How China's family businesses can bridge the generation gap 
Jul 2013    Coaching the Way for Corporate Bosses 
Mar 2013 Powering a Positive Family Business

Latest Book (now also available in Japanese)

When Family Businesses are Best 

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When Family Businesses are Best: The Parallel Planning Process for Family Harmony and Business Success
Published October 14, 2010
By Professor Randel S. Carlock and Professor John L. Ward 

Buy now at Amazon.com and leading bookshops
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ファミリービジネス最良の法則 
ランデル カーロック (著), ジョン ワード (著), 階戸 照雄 (翻訳) 2015
Published January 2015 
Japanese edition of When Family Businesses are Best
Translated by Dr Teruo Shinato,  Nihon University
Buy now on Amazon.co.jp 
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家族企业最佳实践:家族和谐与企业成功的双层规划流程 [平装]
~ 兰德尔•卡洛克(Randel S. Carlock) (作者), 约翰•沃德 (John L. Ward)
Chinese version of When Family Businesses are Best By Professor Randel S. Carlock and Professor John L. Ward.  
Buy now on Amazon.cn
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La Excelencia en la Empresa Familiar: El proceso de planificación para la empresa y la familia. Randel S. Carlock y John L. Ward.
Grupo Planeta (GBS), 2010 
Spanish version of When Family Businesses are Best by Professor Randel S. Carlock and Professor John L. Ward
Buy now on Amazon.com

Latest News

Oct 2016 
The Family Enterprise Challenge @ INSEAD Fontainebleau, France
Designed for members of Family Businesses to attend together, the Family Enterprise Challenge is your best investment for improved family relationships and long-term business performance.
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This is what over 1000 family business members who “survived” this Challenge over the last 15 years will attest to.

Family-owned enterprises face special challenges. Who will lead the family and/or the firm into the next generation? How to disentangle personal and business relationships? Should long-term investment take precedence over short-term dividends?

Get the answers wrong and the results can be disastrous – for family and firm alike. Get them right and you will have a high-performance business and a happy, wealthy family.
Watch Professor Carlock explain what the program is about. 
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The Family Enterprise Challenge is designed to help you address the universal issues as they apply to your own business and family. It combines rigorous learning – based on the latest research – with practical workshops. Over four and a half intensive days, teams of two to eight representatives from each participating firm learn from each other and INSEAD’s expert professors by sharing, reflecting and above all applying new behaviours. Strict confidentiality is maintained throughout the course.

Ada Polla participated in the Family Enterprise Challenge programme in 2014, with her father, three sisters and brother-in-law. She is CEO of Alchimie Forever, a Swiss dermatologist-formulated, plant-based skincare line, and is based in the U.S.  Read what she had to say about the Family Enterprise Challenge 
Aug 2016
FT Family Business Forum Asia at INSEAD Asia Campus, Singapore

Prof Carlock was Chair and Lead moderator for this inaugural and specially designed 1 1/2 days hands on workshop for Asian business families, which delivered a combination of presentations, interviews, panel discussions and exercises to inspire positive change for family relationships across generations and long-term business performance.
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Family members attended together to develop a shared vocabulary, practice communication within the family and come away with concrete ideas about their values and vision and action steps about their strategy, investment and governance.
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Jan 2016
​INSEAD ranked #1 by the Financial Times
Professor Randel Carlock says: “I enjoy teaching at INSEAD because it truly is a global experience. And I get to lead innovative classes with some of the brightest MBA students in the world.” His perspective is echoed by the school’s dean, Ilian Mihov, who comments that “the diversity in the INSEAD classroom is unparalleled and this fact alone creates a magical environment.”
Feb 2016
Women & Governance Workshop
Tough Strategy Decisions: The Board, Chair and CEO’s Roles and Responsibilities
The Diversity Action Committee (DAC) in Singapore partnered Professor Carlock to hold an invitation-only workshop that allowed participants to experience decision-making as a director in a classic case study on the HP-Compaq Merger, to explore governance issues challenging a board of directors, chairman and CEO.
Interview on Singapore's news radio station 93.8LIVE on “The WOW (Women of Worth) with Michelle Martin” 
Martin's 25 minute interview with Prof Carlock discusses the HQ-Compaq Merger of 2001 led by Carly Fiorina, the lessons for governance structures and processes and the challenges of women in leadership.