{"id":1573,"date":"2017-09-15T10:19:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T15:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev-mhisolutionsmag.officialdirectory.com\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2017-12-11T12:27:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T18:27:41","slug":"all-in-the-family-leadership-links-multiple-generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/15\/all-in-the-family-leadership-links-multiple-generations\/","title":{"rendered":"ALL IN THE FAMILY: LEADERSHIP LINKS MULTIPLE GENERATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>These MHI Member Companies Share What Makes Their Generation-Spanning Business Operations Successful &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>By Brian Reaves, MHI Executive Vice President &#8212;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Days before MHI was prepping to throw open the North and South Halls at McCormick Place in Chicago at ProMat 2017 this past spring, a Board of Governors\u2019 member casually noted that multiple exhibitors\u2014and indeed several MHI member companies\u2014would be represented at ProMat by one or more generations of the same family.<\/p>\n<p>Because we don\u2019t document or track our members\u2019 familial-business relationships, we asked around. To our surprise, we\u2019ve discovered roughly a dozen such companies among our membership ranks, and suspect there may even be more (see sidebar on page 28).<\/p>\n<p>Four companies\u2014Flexcon Container, Hamilton Caster &amp; Manufacturing Co., Southworth International Group and UNEX Manufacturing\u2014graciously agreed to take a few minutes at the show to herd their respective family members together and pose for a quick portrait within their exhibits. Each also shared insights into what makes their generation-spanning business operations continually successful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nxtbook.com\/naylor\/MHIQ\/MHIQ0417\/index.php#\/22\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These MHI Member Companies Share What Makes Their Generation-Spanning Business Operations Successful &#8212; By Brian Reaves, MHI Executive Vice President &#8212; Days before MHI was prepping to throw open the North and South Halls at McCormick Place in Chicago at ProMat 2017 this past spring, a Board of Governors\u2019 member casually noted that multiple exhibitors\u2014and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":1540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-resources"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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