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Legacy Traps

Legacy Traps


What would you rather have: a joyful Christmas dinner with all the family or a thriving family business?


You can have both... if you are willing to have difficult conversations and make hard choices.


This book shows you how.

Book Summary

"Are you immortal?"

"Are you capable of firing your children?"

"Are you teaching your children how to fight appropriately?"

"Are you confident unanimity, compromise, and consensus is not leading to poor decisions?"

If you are not, subscribe to the Legacy Traps Blog for clear answers to these questions and many more.

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Book Summary

Book Summary

Aviation became one of the safest industries in the world not by studying success, but by studying accidents. Every failure—however rare—was analyzed so future flights could be safer.


Alejandro approaches family business failures in the same way, uncovering the traps that must be avoided to protect family bonds and to make businesses stronger and more stable.


Legacy Traps offers universal lessons about human behavior and decision-making that shape every family’s future.

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Alejandro Cárdenas Villa

Alejandro Cárdenas Villa

Advisor, mediator, and guide to multigenerational families.

The Author

Alejandro Cárdenas Villa

Alejandro has blended insights from psychology, management, law, and finance to focus on protecting family relationships and business decisions—the true foundations of enduring wealth. He is an advisor, mediator, and guide to multigenerational families navigating succession, conflict, and governance challenges. His perspective is shaped by experience on both sides of the table—guiding families as an external advisor and serving within them as an independent board member and nonfamily executive.

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