The entrepreneurial family

From the book jacket:. What do Nordstrom, Hilton, and Esprit have in Common? Ford? Coca-Cola? Hasbro? They're all big, successful, and began as family businesses. And all survived. At the other end of the spectrum are the hundreds of thousands of down-home, mom-and-pop operations that are every bit as successful, in their terms, as the giants. They too have survived. How to survive and succeed in family business is the subject of Roger Fritz's The Entrepreneurial Family. Here's practical guidance for every key family-business situation; from starting up to changing the guard, carefully balanced between family-help and sound-business perspectives on all important issues. It's a gold mine of insights, time-tested answers, and step-by-step prescriptions that can easily be adapted to any family and business, including how to decide whether to start a family business, structure the business for success, solve the kind of problems and capitalize on the opportunities unique to family businesses, reconcile conflicts between family and business interests, handle competition and rivalry among family members, mainstream "outsiders" into the family business, and train successors without spoiling them. A treasury of instructive strategies and colorful, real-life scenarios, The Entrepreneurial Family is for all participants in the family-business enterprise who want to work toward a productive, reduced-stress environment in both the home and the workplace, in which the entrepreneurial vision that gave rise to the business can thrive.

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