Regular meetings help build a strong family. And a strong family has a much better chance at long term success. In Family Meetings, authors Aronoff and Ward show that holding regular meetings is one of most important ways of ensuring less conflict and more collaboration.

Family Meetings: How to Build a Stronger Family and a Stronger Business (A Family Business Publication)

Business & Money

Aronoff, C.

Ward, J.

Management & Leadership

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Through an investigative look at familial interactions, the authors highlight normal conflicts, criticisms, and communications failures that are a part of the family experience as well as their effects on working relationships within the enterprise.

How Families Work Together (A Family Business Publication)

Whiteside, M.

Parenting & Relationships

Strategies for family firms, unlike those of other businesses, can and should incorporate family factors. Responsible and disciplined strategic integration of family and business goals, strengths and values produces powerful results.

Preparing Your Family Business for Strategic Change (A Family Business Publication)

Developing policies to guide decision making can help the family business avoid serious problems. The authors provide a step-by-step process for engaging family members in developing policies which cover issues such as: dealing with conflicts of interest; retirement timing; distribution of profits; loan programs; compensation and succession.

Developing Family Business Policies: Your Guide to the Future (A Family Business Publication)

Astrachan, J.

It's so important that the generations to come understand and share in the founder's vision and philosophy. Authors Aronoff and Ward help leaders discover their own values and then they provide ways to infuse these values into the fabric of their business for generations to come.

Family Business Values: How to Assure a Legacy of Continuity and Success (A Family Business Publication)

Designed for families planning to draft a Family Agreement, families deciding whether or not to begin the process, and those that have already established a Family Agreement, this book illustrates the fundamental components and their importance to the success of the family business.

The Family Constitution: Agreements to Secure and Perpetuate Your Family and Your Business (A Family Business Publication)

Good planning is more than just thinking ahead; businesses need a strategic approach to ensuring their success. Keeping the Family Business Healthy provides readers with a guide to strategic thinking, including how to maintain growth, how to shape business direction, preparing for new leadership, and working with a large and diverse family base.

Keeping the Family Business Healthy: How to Plan for Continuing Growth, Profitability, and Family Leadership (A Family Business Publication)

Business Culture

Springer

In Building a Successful Family Business Board , the authors show why private firms need the in-depth expertise and objective feedback that a well-chosen board, including qualified independent directors, can provide, and demonstrates how owners and directors can work together to ensure a long and profitable life for the firm.

Building a Successful Family Business Board: A Guide for Leaders, Directors, and Families (A Family Business Publication)

Pendergast, J.

The authors explore how effective planning and communication helps business families around the world address growth challenges as they strive to become high performing multi-generation family enterprises. This book shows family businesses working together at their best.

When Family Businesses are Best: The Parallel Planning Process for Family Harmony and Business Success (A Family Business Publication)

Carlock, R.

International

Rather than having to choose between the family and the business, the authors argue that if family-owned businesses can consciously manage and over time, perhaps, synthesize these contradictions, the Family Enterprise will have a long-term strategic and competitive advantage and the family will remain committed to continuity.

Family Business as Paradox (A Family Business Publication)

Schuman, A.

Stutz, S.

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