Greater Bay Area wealth management firm Del Monte Group announces the launch of “A Place of Possibility” podcast, co-hosted by Del Monte Group founder Richard Del Monte and partner and COO Angela Wright. “A Place of Possibility” was developed...
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Many today see money as a solution to problems, but that is not always the case. Wealth can be quite damaging to a family dynamic, which means that planning is critical. When family members are prepared and have learned...
As distasteful as the idea may be, child identity theft is a serious and growing concern, for several reasons:It happens more often than you might think. In a 2018 Child Identity Fraud report, Javelin Strategy & Research found more...
Group decision making is a topic that has spawned many academic studies, books, and white papers. It is never easy to get a group of human beings to make a decision together. It’s hard enough for a single individual...
What to Say and Not to Say When People are Grieving Let’s face it; whenever someone we know has suffered a loss or is going through a difficult time, we all struggle with what to say. Some of us...
Dear Richard, I have enjoyed reading your blog posts over the years. My parents are in the process of transitioning the ownership and management of our family’s business to my brother, sister, and me. All three of us are...
My colleague, Andy Bryce, and I were able to spend two days last week working with a wonderful family who are in the middle of a multi-year transition of the family’s business to their very capable rising generation. Today,...
We’re ready to take a deeper dive now, exploring the difference between analytical and intuitive thinking. Dr. Roger Sperry, a 1981 Nobel Prize winner, found that two distinctly different brains coexist inside our heads. Each processes information quite differently...
In my last post discussing the groundbreaking book, Breaking the Rules, by Kurt and Patricia Wright, we learned to reframe our old outmoded relationships to the belief that people actually have weaknesses, when in fact we only have strengths....