Family meetings: how to build a stronger family and a stronger business

Regular meetings help build a strong family. And a strong family has a much better chance at long term success. In Family Meetings, authors Aronoff and Ward show that holding regular meetings is one of most important ways of ensuringless conflict and more collaboration. 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 businesseducation 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. INDICE: Introduction - The Value if Family Meeting - Unfounded Fears - PART I: TEN BENEFITS OF EFFECTIVE FAMILY MEETINGS - Building a Stronger Family - Building a Stronger Business - Planning for Future Ownership - Planning FamilyParticipation - Managing Inherited Wealth - Opening Up the Succession Process- Preserving Family Tradition and History - Professionalizing the Business - Managing Relations between Family and Board of Directors - Recognizing and Resolving Conflict - PART II: HOW TO HOLD EFFECTIVE MEETINGS - Overcoming Misconceptions and Fears - When is the Right Time? - Who Should Run the Meeting? - The Agenda, Location - Whom Do We Invite - Openers - Icebreakers - Documenting the Meeting - Closing the Meeting - Running Ongoing Meetings - Family Retreats - Communication - Organization - How Issues Change as the Business Evolves - Forming a Family Council - Role and Rituals and Ceremonies - Avoiding Pitfalls - PART III: SOME MILESTONES REACHED THROUGH FAMILY MEETINGS - Planning the Future of the Business - Smoothing Ownership Succession - Encouraging Family Members in Stewardship - Developing Family Skills - Creating a Family Mission Statement - Summary - Index -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-11101-1
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 100
• Fecha Publicación: 11/01/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido