# The Resilience Tax: Why Family Businesses Invest Before They Need To

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Podcast: [Legacy Builders: Strategies for Building Successful Family Enterprises](https://stenobird.com/podcast/legacy-builders-strategies-for-building-successful-family-enterprises-6321260)
Published: 2026-09-11T11:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://beaconfamilyoffice.com/legacy-builders-podcast/
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## Resource

In this episode, we’re joined by Devin DeCiantis, Managing Partner at Lansberg Gersick Advisors. Devin has spent years studying how family enterprises endure across generations, focusing on governance, risk, and resilience. Our conversation explores how culture and history shape the way families respond to uncertainty, why long periods of stability can create complacency, and what it means to build resilience before a crisis arrives deliberately. We also discuss intergenerational responsibility, migration, institutional trust, and the idea of paying a “resilience tax” today to strengthen an enterprise for tomorrow.

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