The most comprehensive answers to complex family business issues. 
You've worked hard to build your family business, but sometimes you need more than simple answers to your firm's complex business issues. In its 3rd edition, Family Business Sourcebook provides these answers. This edition incorporates the best thinking and writing by some of the most respected authorities in the field, including Craig E. Aronoff, Joseph H. Astrachan and John L. Ward.

Family Business Sourcebook, Third Edition

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Family Enterprise Publishers

Sharing Wisdom, Building Values offers lessons from twenty-four family businesses the world over - not case studies, but words from the heart of the family business leader themselves. 
Sharing Wisdom, Building Values teaches us invaluable lessons regarding family business. One of the clearest lessons learned is that while every family business is unique, they also have much in common in terms of challenges and rewards. The authors show us through these personal letters how family firms from the world over can learn mightily from one another, just as each successive generation in a family business learns from their predecessors.

Sharing Wisdom, Building Values: Letters From Family Business Owners to Their Successors

Cuneo, Gianfilippo

Adler, Gordon

Kenyon-Rouvinez, Denise H.

Corbetta, Guido

If your family is like most business-owning families, painfful conflict among family members is one of your greatest concerns. Improving communication is one of your greatest hopes and desires. Curing conflict and smoothing communication is what Conflict and Communication in the Family Business is all about. 
Nothing distresses a business-owning family as much as conflict among family members, or frustrates it so much as the inability of family members to communicate with one another satisfactorily. 
This book, the newest title in The Family Business Leardership Series helps you understand conflict and how to deal with it constructively. It provides you with a clear view of some of the very common dynamics that surround conflict. It offers ideas for improving your negotiation skills and suggests strategies for coping with difficult family members. 
This is the perfect book for all members of business-owning families. When everyone is working together to improve communication skills and conflict, achieving your shared dreams becomes much closer to reality. 
If you are a non-family executive in a family business, an advisor to families in business or an outside director on a family business board, you will also want to read this book. Conflict and Communication in the Family Business will help you inderstand the dynamics of the business-owning family and allow you to serve the business more effectively. 
Conflict and Communication in the Family Business is different from other material you may have read on the subject in that it emphasizes family communication and shows what goes on beneath the surface of family conflict. 
Everyone talks about family conflict and communication. Now you can actually do something about it. Start by having everyone in your family read Conflict and Communication in the Family Business.

Conflict and Communication in the Family Business

Astrachan, Joseph H.

McMillan, Kristi S.

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

Aronoff, Craig E.

This book is for the next-generation leaders employed in the family business who want to know that they will have the opportunity to grow and learn so that they can achieve their career objectives. It is for family members outside the business who are concerned about what plans the business has to develop the next-generation of talent. It is also for the board of directors and non-family executives who are dedicated to helping family members achieve their career goals.

Nurturing the Talent to Nurture the Legacy: Career Development in the Family Business

M.Schuman, Amy

Working for a Family Business: A Non-Family Employee's Guide to Success was written for the non-family employee. If you are a non-family employee who shoulders substantial responsibility or hold a position of considerable influence, this book is especially for you. This book, written by Christopher J. Eckrich, Ph.D. and Stephen L. McClure, Ph.D. will provide you with a greater understanding of the concept of "family business." Family businesses are unlike other companies, and you will learn how they differ and how those differences impact you and what you do. 
This title will help you gain insight into the business-owning family. You will discover some no-win traps to avoid, find tools and techniques for handling difficult situations and develop judgement about your ability to take on certain roles or intervene in sensitive family situations. This book will show you best how to serve the family and the business to insure the success of both. You will come to recognize the importance of seeing yourself as the family's partner. The more knowledge you have, the better position you'll be in to support the family in its difficult task of combining family and business. 
Working for a Family Business: A Non-Family Employee's Guide to Success, the newest title in the Family Business Leadership Series will provide you with the family business knowledge you need to be successful in your jab and career.

Working for a Family Business: A Non-Family Employee's Guide to Success

McClure, Stephen L.

Eckrich, Christopher J.

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: The Family Agreement. The authors, Daniela Montemerlo and John Ward discuss the three main reasons why a business-owning family would create a Family Agreement. Family Agreements foster the company’s successful development, maintain ownership unity and commitment and reinforce family strength as a family. Drs. Montemerlo and Ward outline how Family Agreements provide the vision that strengthens the resolve and devotion of ownership. They discuss the types of Family Agreements and how each type reflects certain assumptions about the business and the family. The Family Constitution: Agreements to Secure and Perpetuate Your Family and Your Business “provides a comprehensive framework for understanding the subject and a thoughtful approach how on to execute it well.” In its pages you’ll learn, the fundamental components of a family agreement, the differences between an owner’s contract, family business protocol, family statement and family constitution, the purpose of family agreements, what comprises each section of a family agreement, why the family’s values and beliefs are important to the process, why the process is as or more important than the content, how to understand whether your agreement will succeed or fail, and the timing and the process for reviewing and amending the document. The Family Constitution: Agreements to Secure and Perpetuate Your Family and Your Business is designed to be useful to those families who are starting down the path toward a Family Agreement, for those who are trying to decide whether to begin or not and for those families who already have a Family Agreement and feel it is time to reassess it. This book will also help those families who have tried to write a Family Agreement in the past but for whatever reason have not finished the work. The Family Constitution: Agreements to Secure and Perpetuate Your Family and Your Business is fast reading with real life examples, practical tips and 25 useful exhibits.

The Family Constitution: Agreements to Secure and Perpetuate Your Family and Your Business

Daniela Montemerlo

John L.Ward

Leading any business or business-owning family is difficult. But leadership in a family business is a far different challenge than leadership in any other kind of business. With three different systems, the business, the family and ownership and multiple generations in the business increasing the number of owners, leadership can become complicated. Effective Leadership in the Family Business is aimed at helping business-owning families understand and implement the extra dimensions of leadership that family firms require. Leadership is about action. It is focused on making things happen and getting thing done---“pulling the trigger” of actually leading. This book is less concerned with developing the potential to lead than with the process of leadership itself and ways to improve it. It will be especially useful to you if you have leadership responsibilities in a business-owning family or in the business itself, if you are parents preparing the next generation for leadership, or if you are among those who aspire to leadership. You will be given tools for sharpening your leadership skills and if you are at the point of beginning your career, you will find tips and strategies for gaining the credibility you need to put yourself on the path to leadership. This is a how-to book aimed at helping people exercise effective leadership in family businesses and business-owning families. In Effective Leadership in the Family Business you’ll learn, what leadership is and what it isn’t, different leadership styles and how to use them, how to look for leaders in your family, how to gain credibility for leadership, ways to prepare young people for leadership, and how to be a good follower. Others who will find this book helpful include non-family executives in a family firm, family business advisors, and family members and owners not in overt positions of leadership but who may nonetheless provide informal leadership or offer support to leaders by being good followers. Each generation differs in terms of the leadership challenges it faces. Effective Leadership in the Family Business will provide you with the knowledge you need to develop into an effective leader.

Effective Leadership in the Family Business

Craig E. Aronoff ,Ph.D. and Otis W. Baskin, Ph.D.

Family businesses find many different paths to success. Some, like Wal-Mart become among the world s largest businesses. Others, happily serve a limited market. Whether a business remains small or grows large, every family business at some time or other is faced with issues that center around growth. If you are a member of a business owning family, you may ask such questions as: Do we want this business to grow? Why should we grow it? Is it capable of growing? What sacrifices will growth require? What sacrifices will we make if we don t grow? Healthy Growth for the Family Business will help you answer those questions. When leaders of family firms think about growth, they take into consideration not just the business but also how the business growth will affect the family. Healthy Growth for the Family Business is aimed at helping members of family businesses sort out the issues associated with growth and arrive at decisions that are best for the business and the family. You will learn that growth can mean different things to different people, and not just in terms of increases in sales and profits. The way some family business owners look at growth will offer inspiration and spur creativity as you seek answers for your own company. Family shareholders and board members will learn a great deal from Dr. Pendergast s new book. When they have a better understanding of the issues involved in growth, these family members can support you in moving the family business in the direction it needs to go. Healthy Growth for the Family Business will provide you with practical knowledge. It will help you decide whether to grow and, if so, what type and amount of growth you want. You will learn to avoid the dangers of overestimating your company s ability to grow or under anticipating the company s need for growth. This book will also help you determine how best to reach your growth goals. In addition, it will serve as a useful tool in facilitating the important

Healthy Growth For The Family Business

PH.D.

Jennifer M. Pendergast

Is it possible to speak openly about wealth? That is the challenge that this book modestly attempts to meet, using all the accoutrements--knowledge, wisdom and even humor--that such a topic requires. It is our greatest wish and highest ambition that today's wealth--whether long-held or recently acquired--be wealth for the future, not just an end for today. Wealth is a means of building tomorrow's world. Thierry Lombard Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch &amp; Cie This book is by eminent family enterprise consultants Dr. Denise Kenyon-Rouvinez and Dr. John L. Ward who bring their vast knowledge to this subject. With the wisdom of Buddhist monk, Matthieu Ricard and the humor of French cartoonist Gabs, this book is a must for all family members dealing with the issue of wealth.

Why Me? Wealth: Creating, Receiving and Passing It On

MATTHIEU RICARD

Denise Kenyon-Rouvinez

Thierry Lombard

Gabs

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