LEARN COACHING SKILLS TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE FAMILY BUSINESS 70% of all family businesses will not survive to the next generation. Visionary family leaders realize to beat the odds they must have a process for building a strong, resilient team and family. The Family Business Playbook gives your family a road map for success! With over 20 proven "family-tested" exercises, plus 10 "must-read" articles, your family will have a practical, useful set of tools to avoid the pitfalls that cause family business failure and family conflict.
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.
The Power of Inclusion in Family Business is a guide for grooming the next generation of responsible women owners in family businesses, so they can thrive, achieve, and become leaders and wealth stewards in their multigenerational family firms and family offices.
Combining the expertise of two consultants and academics from East and West, this book provides an international guide for family businesses, showing how to identify and implement the best governance strategies. Packed with case studies and interviews, this is the ultimate guide for family businesses wanting to achieve long-term success.
Doug Gray, PhD, PCC, is a champion for Next Gen Family Business leaders and the CEO of Action Learning Associates. His expertise is described at www.AssessNextGen.com, www.NextGenPeerGroups.com and in his decades of consulting expertise.
Navigate the complex decisions and critical relationships necessary to create and sustain a healthy family business—and business family. Though "family business" may sound like it refers only to mom-and-pop shops, businesses owned by families are among the most significant and numerous in the world. But surprisingly few resources exist to help navigate the unique challenges you face when you share the executive suite, financial statements, and holidays. How do you make the right decisions, critical to the long-term survival of any business, with the added challenge of having to do so within the context of a family? The HBR Family Business Handbook brings you sophisticated guidance and practical advice from family business experts Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer. Drawing on their decades-long experience working closely with a wide range of family businesses of all sizes around the world, the authors present proven methods and approaches for communicating effectively, managing conflict, building the right governance structures, and more. In the HBR Family Business Handbook you'll find: A new perspective on what makes family businesses succeed and fail A framework to help you make good decisions together Step-by-step guidance on managing change within your business family Key questions about wealth, unique to family businesses, that you can't afford to ignore Assessments to help you determine where you are—and where you want to go Stories of real companies, from Marchesi Antinori to Radio Flyer Chapter summaries you can use to reinforce what you've learned Keep this comprehensive guide with you to help you build, grow, and position your family business to thrive across generations. HBR Handbooks provide ambitious professionals with the frameworks, advice, and tools they need to excel in their careers. With step-by-step guidance, time-honed best practices, and real-life stories, each comprehensive volume helps you to stand out from the pack—whatever your role.
Family is messy. We all need direction in the chaos and confusion of life. Many people hire personal trainers to help them succeed in fitness or business, but trainers for family are difficult to find. Yet most would say their family relationships are significantly more valuable than their physique or finances. Instead of working strategically to get relationships in shape from the beginning, families usually only seek help to pick up the broken pieces of their struggling journey. Family Fundamentals is designed to ground you with a clear vision and strategy in order to lead a lasting family legacy. By applying the principles set forth in this book, you will be equipped with tools to take practical steps forward as you implement the 5 T's: Team - Discover Your Family Mission Time - Develop an Intentional Rhythm Table - Build Lasting Connection Tech - Strategically Utilize Technology Traditions - Celebrate Key Moments and Milestones Your future family begins today by learning and applying these fundamentals of family.
Just as a Board of Directors is a governance structure for shareholders, a Family Council oversees a family on everything from educating the family for their future responsibilities as owners to settling disputes within the family. Using the common term family council to refer to family governance, the book will be a practical manual for all business families seeking structure to manage how their family governs itself and relates to their business. The book will answer several basic questions: 1. What are the forms of structured family governance? 2. What purpose is served, and disasters avoided, by using structure like a family council? 3. How does one select the form of family council that is appropriate for the size, age and complexity of the business family? 4. How are family councils established and maintained, and how do they evolve?
Do You Have a Game Plan? Premier agent Drew Pittman loves sports. Maybe even more than you do. But an experience early in his management career convinced him that a life of significance is about faith, family, and football--and always in that order. So how do you make significance your game plan? Competitive sports are filled with lessons about motivation, perseverance, hard work, and collaboration--and these lessons are powerfully transferable to everyday life. Yet few men apply them to the most important arena they'll ever play in: their home. In First Team Dad, Drew Pittman shares the principles that can change the game in your family, straight from a sports insider who has field-tested each and every one with his home team. With heart-pounding stories of unforgettable plays and one-in-a-million players, First Team Dad is your ticket to create a legacy of significance in your family. "It's my hope that by reading First Team Dad you will be motivated to do a better job of leading your family and that you will reach out to other men you know to help them catch this vision."--Tony Dungy, former NFL head coach and bestselling author "Knowing Drew, I've been encouraged and challenged by his example and wisdom--read this book so you can get to know this man as well."--John Schneider, executive vice president and general manager, Seattle Seahawks "To the football fan's delight, Drew shares behind-the-scenes stories about his experiences with famous players and coaches in order to demonstrate practical points about having a strong family. I believe every man who reads this book will walk away inspired and will have a game plan for his own family."--Robert Morris, founding senior pastor, Gateway Church, Dallas Texas; bestselling author, The Blessed Life
