As a new leader helps a company grow, they’ll face a major question: What parts of this business stay as they are, and what parts need to evolve?<br /><br />Now try answering that question at a 102-year-old company in an industry where change is rarely welcome.<br /><br />That’s Antonio Green’s task as the director of his family’s funeral home, the James H. Cole Home for Funerals in Detroit. It was opened in 1919 by his great-grandfather, and Green grew up watching how his family served and supported its community. He now wants to carry on that legacy — while also updating the company and setting it up for the next 100-plus years.
