{"id":2861,"date":"2020-12-01T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T07:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ascef.com\/?p=2861"},"modified":"2020-12-29T11:07:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T11:07:58","slug":"annual-meeting-family-businesses-planeta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ascef.com\/en\/annual-meeting-family-businesses-planeta\/","title":{"rendered":"Pablo Lara: &#8220;Family businesses offer value that helps to attract young talent&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pablo Lara<\/strong>, General Manager of the Education Area and Member of the Board of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planeta.es\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u><strong>Grupo Planeta<\/strong><\/u><\/a>, was one of three business people who participated in a round table entitled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ascef.com\/en\/annual-meeting-ascef-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u><strong>The family business: managing with values<\/strong><\/u><\/a>&#8220;. The event was held at the <strong>Annual Meeting of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ascef.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>Catalan Association of Family Businesses (ASCEF)<\/u><\/a><\/strong> on November 26.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lara, who belongs to the third generation of the company&#8217;s family, said that values &#8220;<em>lend personality to family businesses. <strong>They are something intangible that enables the family business to function and they earn trust because they provide a sign that we are thinking in the long term<\/strong><\/em>.&#8221; He added that a family business is &#8220;<em>more intensely felt<\/em>&#8221; due to the fact that &#8220;<em>the reputation of our company is ours: our product is associated with us<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Young talent is what concerns me the most<\/em>,&#8221; he continued, even though he added that &#8220;<em><strong>the family business has values that young people will not find in another company<\/strong>; we build an offer of value that makes us attractive to young talent<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward, Mr Lara feels that the three major challenges facing family businesses in the future are &#8220;<em>talent, moderation and governance<\/em>.&#8221; In this regard, he underlined the importance of &#8220;<em>thinking about what follows the crisis before reaching it; now is a good time to steal a march on some companies<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Together with Mr Lara, the guests at the business round table at the <strong>ASCEF Annual Meeting<\/strong> were <strong>Antonio Gallardo<\/strong>, the Honorary Vice-President of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.almirall.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u><strong>Almirall<\/strong><\/u><\/a> and Honorary President of ASCEF, and <strong>Ramon Agenjo<\/strong>, the Board Member and Secretary of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.damm.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u><strong>S.A. DAMM<\/strong><\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pablo Lara, General Manager of the Education Area and Member of the Board of Grupo Planeta, was one of three business people who participated in a round table entitled &#8220;The family business: managing with values&#8220;. The event was held at the Annual Meeting of the Catalan Association of Family Businesses (ASCEF) on November 26. 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