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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Best practices for creating a board of directors for family businesses from the experts in the field.

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.

Mexico: McGraw-Hill Interamericana, 1999. 69p. (HD69.C6A7e)

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.

Sooner or later, every business family needs to formalize the structure and guidelines under which the family will own and operate their business.

Shefsky interviewed 200 entrepreneurs and draws on their experiences to highlight targeted lessons in entrepreneurship.

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Rather than having to choose between the family and the business, the authors argue that if family-owned businesses can consciously manage and, synthesize.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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?

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.

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 demonstrates the value of family meetings and how to effectively use family meetings to achieve family.

The study and research of the role of family values and their impact on the creation of values.

If a family-owned company is to endure and provide the maximum potential opportunity for future generations, it must plan for provision.

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.

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 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 emphasizes how to build positive and constructive family relations by learning to make the characteristics and dynamics of family life.

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 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.

Mexico: McGraw-Hill Interamericana, 1999. 53p. (HD62.25.A7e)

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.

Mexico: McGraw-Hill Interamericana, 2000. 47p. (HD62.25.A712e)

Mexico: McGraw-Hill Interamericana, 2000. 63p. (HD62.25.A713e)

Paris: Presses Universitaire de France, 2004, 127 p

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.

Family businesses are now increasingly passed from founder to next-generation sibling teams. Brothers and sisters own and run.

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.

Mexico: McGraw-Hill Interamericana, 2000. 61p. (HD62.25.A71e)

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.

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.

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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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.

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 most comprehensive reference book on family business issues, the 740-page Family Business Sourcebook II is a thoroughly revised, updated.

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.

"IMD - International Institute for Management Development - has been the global meeting place for families in business since 1988."

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This book explores how effective planning and communication helps family businesses around the world address growth challenges as they strive to become high.

Eminent family enterprise authors bring humor to their vast knowledge of this subject