Family Business Values: How to Assure a Legacy of Continuity and Success is the twelfth volume in The Family Business Leadership Series. In it's pages you will learn:
*how values bring power to the family business,
*how family values can strengthen day-to-day operation,
*how values can help to resolve conflicts within the family and between family and business,
*twenty winning values shared by successful family businesses,
*how to identify and articulate genuine family values,
*how to nurture and pass on values in the family and the business,
*how to renew and reinterpret values to retain their productive power in today's fast-changing world, and much more.
The Family Business Leadership Series
We believe that family businesses are special, not only to the families that own and manage them but 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.
The series offers practical guidance for family businesses seeking to manage the special challenges and opportunities confronting them.
Other volumes in the series include:
-Family Business Succession: The Final Test of Greatness
-Family Meetings: How to Build a Stronger Family and a Stronger Business
-Another Kind of Hero: Preparing Successors for Leadership
-How Families Work Together
-Family Business Compensation
-How to Choose and Use Advisors: Getting the Best Professional Family Business Advice
-Financing Transitions: Managing Capital and Liquidity in the Family Business
-Family Business Governance: Maximizing Family and Business Potential
-Preparing Your Family Business for Strategic Change
-Making Sibling Teams Work: The Next Generation
-Developing Family Business Policies: Your Guide to the Future
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 hundreds 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 II 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 Family Enterprise Center. The center focuses on education and research for family businesses, and its programs have been emulated by more than 100 universities worldwide. 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 Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He is a regular visiting lecturer at two European business schools. He has also previously been 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 and Creating Effective Boards for Private Enterprises are leading books in the family business field.
