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Family Business, Risky Business:
How to Make It Work

- by David Bork

There are over 13 million family businesses in America, ranging from corporate giants like Hewlett-Packard, Wrigley, Marriott and Hallmark to the corner grocery store. If you have ever been part of one, you know that a family business can be stressful and challenging, yet uniquely rewarding. In his classic book, David Bork provides a fascinating, candid look inside the workings of family business

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Keeping The Family Business Healthy:
How to Plan for Continuing Growth, Profi tability & Family Leadership

- by John L. Ward

John L. Ward provides comprehensive, practical advice on strategies that will help family firms plan for and survive future growth and changes in the business world.

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Generation to Generation:
Life Cycles of the Family Business

- by Kelin E. Gersick, et. al.

The authors describe a model of family business that accounts for three different dimensions: ownership, family, and business. They also identify four classic family-business types and address the management issues that arise as firms evolve from one type to the next.

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Consulting to Family Business
- by Jane Hilburt-Davis & W. Gib Dyer, Jr.

A Systematic approach to for developing the skills and competencies you need to consult with these unique systems. This practical, hands-on resource shoes you hoe to manage each stage of the consulting process - from the first contact to the last - and reveals how to plan strategically and deal with the complex relationship issues that are commonplace in the family businesses.

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Working with the Ones You Love
- by Dennis T. Jaffe, Ph.D.

This book shows you how to manage the complex work and perosnal relationships that are intertwined in family business. It covers all the issues of importance to those woprking with family members: separating personal and business issues, deciding whether to enter the family business, bringing in relatives in a healthy way, determining how and to whom control of the business should pass, dealing with non-family employees, etc.

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Family Business
- by Ernesto J. Poza

Provides the next generation of family business owners wit hthe knowledge and skills needed for the successful management and leadership of the family enterprise.

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