The Successful Family Business - A Proactive Plan for Managing the Family and the Business

List of contents

Introduction
1. Dynamic and Different Perspectives
2. A Proactive Family Business Management Process
3. A Family Values Statement
4. A Family Code of Conduct
5. Annual Family Meetings
6. Employing, Compensating, and Managing Family Employees
7. Corporate Perks, Benefits, and Dividends
8. Sibling and Cousin Rivalries
9. Stock Ownership and Liquidity
10. Board of Directors
11. Succession
12. Case Study: The Beach Company
13. Choosing a Non-Family Successor CEO
14. Case Study: Edens & Avant
15. Sale of the Business
16. Going Public or Recapitalizing Your Family Business
17. Family Business Operating Rules
Resources
Index

About the author

Edward D Hess is Adjunct Professor of Organization and Management, Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Corporate Growth, and Founder and Executive Director of the Values-Based Leadership Institute at Goizueta Business School, Emory University, where he teaches courses in entrepreneurship, leadership, and business growth. He also maintains an active consulting practice with family businesses. Prior to joining Emory, he spent over 30 years as a lawyer, investment banker, and consultant, specializing in private family business. He has written a regular column for the Georgia business magazine, The Catalyst, the author of Make It Happen: Six Tools for Success and Executing Organic Growth: How Great Companies Consistently Grow from Within, and lead editor and author of The Search for Organic Growth and Leading with Values: Values, Virtue and High Performance.

Product details

• Authors: Edward D. Hess, Hess Edward D.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2005
• EAN: 9780275988876
• ISBN: 978-0-275-98887-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Weight: 425 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General, Small businesses & self-employed, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Small Business, Family & relationships, Small businesses and self-employment, Relationships and families: advice and issues, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Freelance & Self-Employment, Business: Entrepreneurship