Keeping the family business healthy: how to plan for continuing growth, profitability, and family leadership

Good planning is more than just thinking ahead; businesses need a strategic approach to ensuring their success. Keeping the Family Business Healthy provides readers with a guide to strategic thinking, including how to maintain growth, how to shape business direction, preparing for new leadership, and working with a large and diverse family base. JOHN L. WARD Co-founder of the Family Business Consulting Group Inc. He isClinical Professor at the Kellogg School of Management, USA, and teaches strategic management, business leadership and family enterprise continuity. INDICE: Foreword; 'L.A.Danco' Preface The Author The Challenge of Keeping a Family Firm Alive Overcoming Barriers to Long-Term Business Health Ensuring Family Interests in Leading the Business Assessing the Firm's Financial and Market Situation Developing a Strategic Plan for the Business Planning the Family's Role in the Company's Future Shaping a Business Strategy that Includes theFamily The Transition to New Leadership: Promoting a Revitalized Business Vision and Strategy Epilogue: Making the Commitment to Plan for Future Generations Appendix A: Family Business Values Questionnaire Appendix B: Sample Financial Analysis of Business Appendix C: Strategic Planning Worksheets Appendix D: Sample Business Strategic Plan Appendix E: Sample Family Strategic Plan Appendix F: Democratic Capitalism Appendix G: Note on Research on Family Business References Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-11121-9
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 308
• Fecha Publicación: 11/01/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido