Books
A Woman's Place: The Crucial Roles of Women in Family Business
Family Business Publication - ISBN-10: 023011122X, ISBN-13: 978-0230111226
Through stories and interviews the authors explore the changing role women play in today's family business, looking at how to encourage and support women family members, to the challenges women face in finding the right balance between work and life, to the role spouses play in couples that work together.
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Building A Successful Family Business Board: A Guide for Leaders, Directors, and Families
ISBN: 978-0-230-11154-7, ISBN10: 0-230-11154-8
Best practices for creating a board of directors for family businesses from the experts in the field.
Business Opportunities Made Investor Ready
2005
This book is the culmination of 15 years of working with aspiring entrepreneurs. It is a practical guide for business owners to help them expand into new markets, raise capital and export their products and services.
Como Desarrollar La Empresa Familiar: Planificacion Estrategica De Crecimiento, Rentabilidad & Liderazgo Familiar Duraderos (Spanish Translation) - Keeping the Family Business Healthy. How to Plan for Continuing Profitability, and Family Leadership
ISBN: 950-02-3626-5 - Buenos Aires: El Ateneo, 1994. 216p. (HD62.25.W3e)
Como Escoger y Trabajar Con Consultores En Empresa: Como Obtener El Mejor Asesoramiento Profesional Para La Empresa Familiar (Spanish) - How to Choose & Use Advisors: Getting the Best Family Business Advice
ISBN: 970-10-2464-8
Mexico: McGraw-Hill Interamericana, 1999. 69p. (HD69.C6A7e)
Creating Effective Boards for Private Enterprises: Meeting the Challenges of Continuity and Competition
ISBN: 1-55542-352-3
This book shows how to build a dynamic board of directors that can enhance the ability to conduct business of owners of small to midsized private and family firms.
Defying the ODDS: Case Studies of Nigerian Organizations that have Survived Generations
Developing Family Business Policies: Your Guide to the Future
Sooner or later, every business family needs to formalize the structure and guidelines under which the family will own and operate their business.
Di Padre In Giglio: L'Impresa Di Famiglia; Come Preparer Il Passaggio Generazionale E Assicurare Continuita E Prosperita Alle Aziende Familiari (Italian Translation) - Keeping the Family Business Healthy. How to Plan for Continuing Growth, Profitability,
ISBN: 88-204-3684-1
Entrepreneurs Are Made Not Born
ISBN: 0-07-057025-6
Shefsky interviewed 200 entrepreneurs and draws on their experiences to highlight targeted lessons in entrepreneurship.
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Family Business as Paradox
ISBN: 978-0-230-24360-6, ISBN10: 0-230-24360-6
Rather than having to choose between the family and the business, the authors argue that if family-owned businesses can consciously manage and, synthesize.
Family Business Compensation
Compensation matters are among the most frequently asked and complicated questions facing business-owning families. What is fair? How can the rewards of ownership be distinguished from.
Family Business Governance: Maximizing Family and Business Potential
Effective governance empowers leaders of the business and the family to make the most of the unique strength of a family business: The synergy between a strong, unified owning family.
Family Business Key Issues
ISBN: 1-4039-4775-9
This book is collection of articles by leading thinkers and practitioners on family business and it covers such issues as ensuring a healthy family business, family strategy, governance and succession.
Family Business Ownership: How to be an Effective Shareholder
This book explores the far deeper rewards--spiritual, psychological, intellectual, emotional and financial-- that can come from being an effective shareholder in a healthy family business.
Family Business Succession: The Final Test of Greatness
Few challenges demand more of a business owner than passing on the family business to the next generation. Family members' lifelong hopes, dreams, ambitions, relationships.
Family Business Succession: Your Roadmap to Continuity
Family Business Publication - ISBN-10: 1137280891, ISBN-13: 978-1137280893
The first ever comprehensive guide to family business succession planning. This book covers everything from what family business ownership is and how to structure ownership bylaws to business structure, leadership transition, and how a founder exits the business. Drawing on original research, case studies, and white papers, Family Business Succession is a thorough, complete, and "required reading" for every family member working in a family business.
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Family Business Through Darwin's Theory of Species
The purpose of this book is to explore with the reader whether Darwin's theory of evolution is a valuable metaphor for family business continuity. Is there, possibly, a "family business biology"? Do Darwin's concepts of struggle for life, adaptation, variation, mutation, natural selection, procreation and inheritance provide helpful insights for family business owners?
Family Business Values: How to Assure a Legacy of Continuity and Success
A family's values can be among the greatest competitive advantages that owners can bring to their business. When owning family's values form the heart of a business culture, vital.
Family Education for Business-Owning Families. Strengthening Bonds by Learning Together
ISBN: 1-891652-27-5
This book aims to inspire you and your family to initiate a family education program that is suited to the needs of your family.
Family Meetings: How to Build a Stronger Family and a Stronger Business
Family Meetings: How to Build a Stronger Family and a Stronger Business demonstrates the value of family meetings and how to effectively use family meetings to achieve family.
Family Values and Value Creation - (Introduction & Chapter 5 "How Values Dilemmas Underscore the Difficult Issues of Governing the Large, Enterprising Family")
ISBN: 978-0-230-21219-01
The study and research of the role of family values and their impact on the creation of values.
Financing Transitions: Managing Capital and Liquidity in your Family Business
If a family-owned company is to endure and provide the maximum potential opportunity for future generations, it must plan for provision.
From Siblings to Cousins: Prospering in the Third Generation and Beyond
If you are a sibling owner, this book will help you create the circumstances to help your children become successful team-if it's the family's goal to continue in business together. This is a how-to book aimed at helping the cousin generation continue working together successfully.
Generation to Generation: Life Cycles of the Family Business
ISBN: 978-0875845555
One of the first comprehensive overviews of family business as a specific organizational form. Focusing on the inevitable maturing of families and their firms over time, the authors reveal the dynamics and challenges family businesses face as they move through their life cycles.
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Healthy Growth for the Family Business
ISBN-10: 0230111246, ISBN-13: 978-0230111240
Healthy growth is critical to the future of any business - too many rash decisions can lead to the demise of a family business. Dr. Pendergast provides readers with practical knowledge to help determine whether to grow, what type of growth is healthy and sustainable and what the future potential is for any business.
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How Families Work Together
How Families Work Together emphasizes how to build positive and constructive family relations by learning to make the characteristics and dynamics of family life.
How to Choose & Use Advisors: Getting the Best Family Business Advice
The success and survival of your family business may depend on the professionals you choose to advise you on matters of finance, law, taxes, family relations, business strategy.
Invent Reinvent Thrive
ISBN: 007182300X
Invent Reinvent Thrive tells the stories of the founders of: Starbucks, Costco, Staples, CDW, Charles Schwab & others, and the families that own companies and products such as: Hyatt, Seagram's, General Dynamics, Jet & Ebony Magazines, Radisson, TGIF & others. Their stories are fascinating and the lessons gleaned from them, through many hours of personal interviews have been described as extremely interesting, invaluable and profound.
Juntas De Trabajo Exitosas Para Formar Empresas Familiares Muy Solidas (Spanish Translation) - Family Meetings: How to Build a Stronger Family and a Stronger Business
ISBN: 970-10-2463-X
Mexico: McGraw-Hill Interamericana, 1999. 53p. (HD62.25.A7e)
Keeping the Family Business Healthy. How to Plan for Continuing Growth, Profitability, and Family Leadership
ISBN: 1-55542-026-5
Fewer than one-third of family-owned businesses survive until the second generation because owners or managers avoid making decisions about the company's future. As a result, they fail to adapt to changing.
La Prueba Suprema de La Grandeza; La Eleccion Del Nuevo Lider (Spanish Translation) - Family Business Succession: The Final Test of Greatness
ISBN: 970-10-2696-9
Mexico: McGraw-Hill Interamericana, 2000. 47p. (HD62.25.A712e)
La Sucesion En La Empresa Familiar: Un Nuevo Lider, Un Nuevo Heroe (Spanish Translation) - Another Kind of Hero: Preparing Successors for Leadership
ISBN: 970-10-2697-7
Mexico: McGraw-Hill Interamericana, 2000. 63p. (HD62.25.A713e)
Leading a Family Business: Best Practices For Long-Term Stewardship
2017
Les Enterprises Familiales (French) - Family Enterprises
ISBN: 2-13-054607-2
Paris: Presses Universitaire de France, 2004, 127 p
Make Change Your Family Business Tradition
The current rapid rate of change makes ongoing success in a family business an increasingly more difficult challenge. This book provides a framework for all constituents to embrace change for the success of the family enterprise.
Making Sibling Teams Work: The Next Generation
Family businesses are now increasingly passed from founder to next-generation sibling teams. Brothers and sisters own and run.
Managing Complexity in Global Organizations (IMD Executive Development Series) - (Chapter 18) Managing Complexity: The Family Business Experience
Mastering Global Corporate Governance (IMD Executive Development Series) - (Chapter 8) How Governing Family Businesses is Different
ISBN: 0-470-09041-3
More Than Family: Non-Family Executives in the Family Business
The success, growth and well-being of a family business depends on its ability to attract, motivate, develop and retain outstanding executives who are not kin. This booklet will aid.
Optimizando El Potencial En La Empresa Familiar; Como Evitar Los Juegos De Poder (Spanish Translation) - Family Business Governance: Maximizing Family and Business Potential
ISBN: 970-10-2753-1
Mexico: McGraw-Hill Interamericana, 2000. 61p. (HD62.25.A71e)
Perpetuating the Family Business: 50 Lessons Learned from Long-Lasting Successful Families in Business
ISBN: 1-4039-3397-9
A framework of insights and principles in which 50 lessons for family businesses are presented using international examples, cases, essential tools and checklists of best practice.
Preparing Successors for Leadership: Another Kind of Hero
Another Kind of Hero: Preparing Successors for Leadership focuses on how a family firm's next generation of leadership can effectively enter the organization and develop essential.
Preparing Your Family Business for Strategic Change
Responsible and disciplined strategic integration of family and business goals, strengths and values produces powerful results for family firms. Significant strategic change is crucial.
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Strategic Planning for the Family Business
ISBN: 0-333-94731-2
The authors introduce the new concept of the Parallel Planning Process, explaining how to integrate the needs and expectations of the family and business systems in order to create an organic and entrepreneurial unit.
Succeeding Generations: Realizing the Dream of Families in Business
ISBN: 978-0875847429
Explores leadership transitions in family businesses, offering a clear-eyed assessment of the different options, from direct succession to building partnerships between siblings and cousins.
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The Family Business Sourcebook, 3rd edition
ISBN: 1-891652-07-9
The most comprehensive reference book on family business issues, the 740-page Family Business Sourcebook II is a thoroughly revised, updated.
The Family Constitution: Agreements to Secure and Perpetuate Your Family and Your Business
The two most effective practices implemented to protect and preserve the family business are "1) to build an independent board to strengthen the business and 2) to draft a Family Agreement to strengthen the family." This book is about the latter.
Unconventional Wisdom: Counterintuitive Insights for Family Business Success (IMD Executive Development Series)
ISBN: 0-470-02165-9
"IMD - International Institute for Management Development - has been the global meeting place for families in business since 1988."
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Visionaries Are Made Not Born: Your Vision Can Lead to Breakthrough Success
Visionaries are business superstars as rare as pop divas - and richer, too. But instead of using natural talent, they learn their craft: one that powerfully impacts segments of our lives, often in ways that we don't even recognize. And their cunning is accessible, once defined. Retired Kellogg School of Management Professor Lloyd Shefsky illustrates the concrete steps you can take to achieve, explain and use visions to lead your business to a successful future.
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When Family Businesses are Best: The Parallel Planning Process for Family Harmony and Business Success
ISBN: 978-0-230-22262-5, ISBN10: 0-230-22262-5
This book explores how effective planning and communication helps family businesses around the world address growth challenges as they strive to become high.
Why me? Wealth: Creating, Receiving and Passing it on
Eminent family enterprise authors bring humor to their vast knowledge of this subject
Why Others? Philanthropy as Opportunity