ABSTRACT

This practical and important book offers ideas, examples, and suggestions that address the challenges inherent to developing and sustaining a successful family business. It explores the complex dynamics involved in working with loved ones and how to pass a business on to a new generation.

Structured around the story of a family that has built a successful enterprise, now facing the issues of succession, the book utilizes the solution-focused model to provide step-by-step instructions to creating good working relationships and orienting toward common goals while building trust, respect, and love.

Complete with summaries, toolkits, and case studies, this book is an essential read for any member of a family business, as well as those who provide services to family businesses, including coaches, consultants, and non-family employees.

chapter 1|11 pages

A Family Business Framework

chapter 2|6 pages

A Solution-Focused Framework

chapter 3|20 pages

Family and Family@business Life Cycle

chapter 4|10 pages

Education Is the Mother of Leadership

chapter 5|9 pages

The Big Question

chapter 6|7 pages

Challenges for the Next Generation

chapter 7|9 pages

How to Prepare G1 for Succession

chapter 8|15 pages

The Solution-Focused Toolkit

chapter 9|14 pages

The Solution Tango

chapter 10|16 pages

Conversations with the Siblings

chapter 11|11 pages

Next Gen: Eight Tools for Your Future

chapter 12|12 pages

Generational Transfer, Sale, or IPO?

chapter 13|5 pages

The Decision of a Lifetime

chapter 14|10 pages

The Dance of the Stakeholders

chapter 15|8 pages

G1 How to Let Go after Succession?

chapter 16|10 pages

Three Family@business Governance Tools

chapter 17|16 pages

Three Family@business Management Tools