Perpetuating the Family Business: 50 Lessons Learned From Long Lasting, Successful Families in Business (A Family Business Publication)

Annotation John L. Ward, a leading world expert on family business, offers the best practices of the most successful and long-lasting families in business, including Ford Motors, Marriott Hotels, Levi-Strauss, and the New York Times . He provides a framework of five insights and four principles in which to position his fifty "lessons learned" for family business longevity. This is a comprehensive book on sustaining family businesses that contains international examples, cases, essential tools, and checklists of best practices; a how-to every entrepreneur should have John L. Ward is a leading world expert on the family business. In this book he brings together a vast amount of experience to show the, 'best practices' of the most successful and long-lasting families in business. He provides a framework of five insights and four principles in which to position his 50 lessons for family businesses. This is the most comprehensive book on sustaining the family business and contains international examples and cases and essential tools and checklists of best practice. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Ultimate Management Challenge....Pages 3-9 The Five Insights and The Four P’s....Pages 10-30 A Vision for the Future....Pages 31-39 Front Matter....Pages 41-42 Stage I: The Owner-Managed Business....Pages 43-65 Stage II: The Sibling Partnership....Pages 66-101 Stage III: The Cousin Collaboration....Pages 102-143 Taking the Longest View....Pages 144-155 Back Matter....Pages 156-178 In this work, John L. Ward brings together a vast amount of experience to show the "best practices" of the most successful and long lasting families in business. He provides a framework of five insights and four principles in which to position his 50 lessons for family businesses. It contains international examples and cases and essential tools and checklists of best practice "This book brings together a vast amount of experience to show the best practices of the most successful and long-lasting families in business. This is the most comprehensive book on sustaining the family business and contains international examples and cases and essential tools and checklists of best practice."--Jacket