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

Aronoff, Craig E.; Ward, John L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1891652079 ISBN 13: 9781891652073

Publisher: Business Owner Resources, 2002

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Publisher:

We believe that family businesses are special, not only to the families that own and manage them but also to our society and to the private enterprise system. Having worked and interacted with hundreds of family enterprises in the past twenty years, we offer the insights of that experience and the collected wisdom of the world's best and most successful family firms.

This volume is a part of a series offering practical guidance for family businesses seeking to manage the special challenges and opportunities confronting them.

About the Author:

Craig E. Aronoff and John L. Ward have long been recognized as leaders in the family business field. Founding principals of The Family Business Consulting Group, Inc., they work with thousands of family businesses around the world. Recipients of the Family Firm Institute's Beckhard Award for outstanding contributions to family business practice, they have spoken to family business audiences on every continent. Their books include Family Business Sourcebook 3rd edition and the three-volume series, The Future of Private Enterprise.

Craig E. Aronoff, Ph.D., holds the Dinos Eminent Scholar Chair of Private Enterprise and is professor of management at Kennesaw State University (Atlanta). He founded and directs the university's Cox Family Enterprise Center. The center focuses on education and research for family businesses, and more than 100 universities worldwide have emulated its programs. In addition to his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and Masters from the University of Pennsylvania, he holds a Ph.D. in organizational communication from the University of Texas.

John L. Ward, Ph.D., is Clinical Professor of Family Enterprises at Northwester University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He is a regular associate dean of Loyola University Chicago's Graduate School of Business, and a senior associate with Strategic Planning Institute (PIMS Program) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A graduate of Northwestern University (B.A) and Stanford Graduate School of Business (M.B.A. and Ph.D.), his Keeping the Family Business Healthy, Strategic Planning for the Family Business (authored with Randel S. Carlock), Creating Effective Boards for Private Enterprises are leading books in the family business field.

About this edition

• Publisher: Business Owner Resources
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1891652079
• ISBN 13: 9781891652073
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 61