Legacy Traps: Why Family Businesses Fail and How to Protect Yours

By: Cárdenas Villa, Alejandro

Are you afraid the business will fracture your family? ...or that the family will destroy the business?

Every founder and family leader eventually faces the following tensions:
Suffering the emotional burden of resolving disputes between those they love most. Fearing the business and wealth meant to provide security and well-being could instead become the source of conflict.Worrying that what they spent a lifetime building could be damaged or squandered by the very people they built it for--through lifestyle, poor decisions, or lack of preparation.
These risks are real, but they are preventable. This book shows how.

For more than two decades, Alejandro C rdenas Villa has worked with family businesses and family offices across continents, both as an advisor and as an internal executive and board member. Like high-reliability industries that learn from accidents to prevent catastrophes, he has studied family business failures to identify the breakdowns that destroy relationships and value--and how to prevent them or repair them when they occur.

In Legacy Traps, he introduces two original frameworks--the Legacy Matrix and the Tanker Model--to help families identify hidden vulnerabilities and install safeguards to protect relationships and wealth from preventable harm.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GPNG2KDC
• ISBN13: 9798887507538
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Forbes Books
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.1"