Preparing your family business for strategic change

Strategies for family firms, unlike those of other businesses, can and shouldincorporate family factors. Responsible and disciplined strategic integrationof family and business goals, strengths and values produces powerful results. CRAIG E. ARONOFF Co-founder, Principal, and Chairman of the Board of The Family Business Consulting Group, Inc., the founder of the Cox Family Enterprise Center and current Professor Emeritus at Kennesaw State University, USA. He invented and implemented the membership-based, professional-service-provider sponsored Family Business Forum, which has served as a model of family businesseducation for universities world-wide. JOHN L. WARD Co-founder of the Family Business Consulting Group Inc. He is Clinical Professor at the Kellogg School of Management, USA, and teaches strategic management, business leadership and family enterprise continuity. INDICE: PREFACE - Shorter Life Expectancy of Strategies - The Family Factor - PART I: REACHING YOUR FAMILY BUSINESS' STRATEGIC POTENTIAL - Sorting through Mixed Signals - Understanding the Family Business Strategic Path - Getting to the Next Phase - PART II: DEMYSTIFYING PAST SUCCESS - Unleashing Strategy and Structure - Loosening Rigid Strategies - Making Change Part of Tradition - PART III: PREVENTING PAST BUSINESS STRATEGY FROM LIMITING FUTURE SUCCESS - Just What Business Are You In? - Getting Over Resistance to Planning - DevelopingStrategic Skills - Making Change Less Threatening - PART IV: RESPONDING TO FAMILY AND BUSINESS NEEDS - The Power of Family Values - Reducing Personal Financial and Emotional Insecurity - Matching Family Factors with Business Strategy- Assessing Risk Tolerance of Family Members - Developing Stewardship - PART V: STRATEGIC LIBERATION AND RENEWAL - New Models for Strategic Succession - Appreciating Inherent Family Business Advantages - Understanding Inherent FamilyBusiness Disadvantages - Turning Disadvantages into Advantages - What Have You Done for the Business Lately? - Depersonalizing Disagreements about Succession or Strategy - Getting Input from the Outside - Conclusions: Getting From Here to There - Appendix: Exhibits of Financial Performance Over the Family Business Strategic Path - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-11107-3
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 100
• Fecha Publicación: 11/01/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido