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Assists family business leaders to create and implement a successful family business strategy to create a culture of change, and to manage incremental strategic experiments.

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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
Developing Strategic 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 Family Business 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

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´While each volume contains helpful ´solutions´ to the issues it covers, it is the guidance on how to tackle the process of addressing the different issues and the emphasis on the benefits which can stem from the process itself which make the Family Business Leadership Series of unique value to everyone involved in a family business - not just the owners.´ - David Grant, Director (retired), William Grant & Sons Ltd. (Distillers of fine Scotch)

´These books deserve a place in every business-owning family´s library´ - Léon Danco, Cleveland, OH

´I think the Family Business Leadership Series books are excellent. They are extremely concise and practical, and they have the information you need.´ - Gigi Cohen, EVP, Magid Glove & Safety Mfg. Co., LLC, Chicago, IL

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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 business education 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.

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