
Developing and Sustaining a Successful Family Business
A Solution-Focused Guide
- 208 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This practical and important book offers ideas, examples, and suggestions that address the challenges inherent to developing and sustaining a successful family business. It explores the complex dynamics involved in working with loved ones and how to pass a business on to a new generation.
Structured around the story of a family that has built a successful enterprise, now facing the issues of succession, the book utilizes the solution-focused model to provide step-by-step instructions to creating good working relationships and orienting toward common goals while building trust, respect, and love.
Complete with summaries, toolkits, and case studies, this book is an essential read for any member of a family business, as well as those who provide services to family businesses, including coaches, consultants, and non-family employees.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- What Is This Book About?
- Author’s Introduction
- Dramatis Personae
- How It All started
- 1 A Family Business Framework
- 2 A Solution-Focused Framework
- 3 Family and Family@business Life Cycle
- 4 Education Is the Mother of Leadership
- 5 The Big Question
- 6 Challenges for the Next Generation
- 7 How to Prepare G1 for Succession
- 8 The Solution-Focused Toolkit
- 9 The Solution Tango
- 10 Conversations with the Siblings
- 11 Next Gen: Eight Tools for Your Future
- 12 Generational Transfer, Sale, or IPO?
- 13 The Decision of a Lifetime
- 14 The Dance of the Stakeholders
- 15 G1 How to Let Go after Succession?
- 16 Three Family@business Governance Tools
- 17 Three Family@business Management Tools
- 18 The John and Annie Family Business, Ten Years Later
- Addendum 1 Little Note on Solution-Focused Mediation for the Family@business
- Addendum 2 Is the Solution-Focused Approach an Evidence-Based Model? YES!
- Bibliography
- About the Author
- Index