Aronoff, Craig E., Ward, John L., Astrachan, Joseph H.

Family Business Sourcebook II

Business & Money

Ward, John L.

Aronoff, Craig E.

Astrachan, Joseph H.

Management & Leadership

Business Owner Resources

In this age of megacorporations, scholars of "free enterprise" (a discipline not found in all colleges) managed to find 74 Americans who started and ran their own business, whom they exhibit as ideals for the rest of us to emulate. Includes homey biographical sketches, the founding and operation of the business, and the lessons learned. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Contemporary Entrepreneurs: Profiles of Entrepreneurs and the Businesses They Started, Representing 74 Companies in 30 Industries : Including Biogra

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Omnigraphics, Inc.

Family Business Sourcebook

Where a business was once almost invariably handed from father to son, it is now increasingly passed from a founder to a next-generation sibling team. Brothers and sisters own and run businesses together in relationships that can be characterized by strength, joy, love and support or by dysfunction, disharmony and disaster. This book is for business-owning parents who want to position their children for success as co-owners and co-leaders in their family business. It is for those children's wives and husbands who want to be supportive and yet not overwhelmed by the dynamics of the family into which they've married. And this book is for those who are or who may become part of a team of sibling owners or managers. Making Sibling Teams Work will help those who have accepted the responsibility of preserving and building a business to find success in their own generation while setting the stage for the generation to follow. In Making Sibling Teams Work, you'll learn: *How parents can improve the odds of next generation success by treating their children as a unit, challenging them to work as a team and resisting the temptation to intervene. *How in-laws can prepare themselves for their roles and play them effectively. *How brothers and sisters can gain the knowledge, skills and commitment to ensure successful working relationships. *How to develop the necessary infrastructure of governance, policies, and procedures to provide the framework for planning, decision making and accountability. *How to assure that Mom and Dad won't divide the sibling team. *How to nurture positive personal relationships among siblings and their spouses. *How to develop and articulate the sibling team's values and goals. *How to prepare for the coming cousins' generation. The second generation can be a very vulnerable time in the life of a family business. Making Sibling Teams Work will show how teams can pilot a family business through this critical phase.

Making Sibling Teams Work: The Next Generation (Family Business Leadership Series Volume 10)

Mendoza, Drew S.

Bussiness Owner Resources

Being an owner of a family business should be a satisfying, fulfilling and profitable experience. For some, however, ownership can be a painful experience, even leading to conflict. But it doesn't have to be this way. 
In Family Business Ownership: How To Be An Effective Shareholder, we explore the far deeper rewards--spiritual, psychological, intellectual, emotional and financial-- that can come from being an effective shareholder in a healthy family business. We show you how to build cohesive leadership, and constructive, rewarding, supportive family owners. 
No matter how many shareholders are in your family business, this title is a vital tool not only to make the business an asset to its owners, but its owners an asset to the business. 
This book illuminates the: 
*Roles and responsibilities of owners, managers and directors 
*Development of the next generation owners 
*Power of cohesive ownership 
*Business information every shareholder needs to know 
*Types of owners and ownership attitudes 
*Rewards and limitations of ownership 
*"Effective ownership" attitude and how to achieve it 
*"Psychic rewards" of ownership 
*Importance of a stewardship approach 
*Value of good shareholder relations

Family Business Ownership: How To Be An Effective Shareholder

Family Enterprise Pub

Family Meetings: How to Build a Stronger Family and a Stronger Business, 2nd edition demonstrates the value of family meetings and how to effectively use family meetings to achieve family and business milestones. In its information-packed pages you'll learn ten benefits of effective family meetings; how to use family meetings to plan for future ownership and participation in the family business; how to use family meetings to preserve family traditions and history and to recognize and resolve conflicts; the key questions to be dealt with at family meetings; how to organize and run effective family meetings; how family meetings change as the business evolves; how to seperate family issues from business issues; how to use rituals and ceremonies for bonding and recognition. 
Family meetings are one of the most important resources available for ensuring family business continuity. Building family participation and commitment results in shared values and collective decisions that strengthen the business and the family.

Family Meetings: How to Build a Stronger Family and a Stronger Business Second Edition

Skills

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, even personal struggles with mortality--all figure into managing succession. 
This second edition of a 1992 classic reflects many more years' worth of knowledge gained in the study of family business. This edition identifies succession management problems and solutions for any family business CEO, whether the business is in its first or second or third generation, or beyond. This edition focuses not only on succession planning but more so on managing succession. Good succession management is like good strategic planning. Once the planning is completed, the real challenge and greatest value comes from keeping it current and implementing it. 
Family Business Succession: The Final Test of Greatness, 2nd edition helps break the complex succession planning and management process into understandable pieces. In its pages you'll learn: the different types of leadership transitions; how to overcome resistance to transferring power, as well as ideals for new roles, new careers and other post-retirement activities; five pieces for good management of the succession process; to prepare your business for succession; to prepare your family for a successful transition; develop effective successors; the process of choosing a successor; how to implement succession; how to avoid common post-succession mistakes and problems; and much more... 
Family Business Succession shows how to turn succession from a potentially explosive crisis into a renewed commitment to the business and the family. It is fast reading, filled with real-life cases, practical tips and 15 useful exhibits.

Family Business Succession: The Final Test of Greatness, Second Edition

McClure, Stephen L.

Letting Go: Preparing Yourself to Relinquish Control of the Family Business is about achieving the personal psychological security that will enable you to let go of an institution that has been dear to you for most of your adult life. Few business owners readily embrace the idea of not being in a position of leadership anymore. But letting go will occur one way or another. This book will help you make your choice and implement it in a way that benefits the business and the family while giving you the satisfaction you deserve. Letting Go will give you practical ideas and strategies for carrying out decisions you make. It will help your family, your board of directors and your key non-family employees by giving them a better understanding of the issues and concerns you face in the letting go process.

LettingGo: Preparing Yourself to Relinquish Control of the Family Business

Family Enterprise Publishers

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