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RIAs embrace the tough-love feedback of advisory boards

Letting clients help direct practice management decisions can have many upsides.

It takes a thick skin to invite outsiders to rigorously critique your financial planning business, but some financial advisers wouldn't have it any other way.

"I show them my business plan, and I usually get beat up pretty good, but it has helped me beyond my wildest dreams," said Patrick Dougherty

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