Hossam Ghamry

Family businesses have always been the backbone of economies — but in today’s age of digitization, decentralization, and disruption, they must become something more: the heart of innovation. Because while corporations chase trends, family businesses carry something priceless — continuity of intention. The Courage to Evolve I worked once with a Gulf-based industrial family firm at a moment of generational transition. The founder had built an empire with grit and intuition; his children were...

Every consultant who’s ever worked with a family enterprise eventually learns this truth: the hardest part isn’t the strategy — it’s the Sunday lunch that follows it. In family businesses, every boardroom is also a living room, and every conversation carries a lifetime of emotional context. That’s both the beauty and the complexity. The Invisible Lines In one engagement, a brilliant third-generation CEO told me, “I run the company during the day, but my father still runs it over dinner.” It...

Family businesses are not built on balance sheets — they are built on dinner tables. On whispered advice from fathers to daughters, on late-night debates between siblings, on the unspoken belief that “this isn’t just work; this is who we are.” And yet, that same intimacy that gives family businesses their strength can also become their greatest challenge. I’ve seen both sides — the beautiful continuity and the quiet friction. The Unwritten Constitution Years ago, I worked with a family-owned...