Keeping the Family Business Healthy: How to Plan for Continuing Growth, Profitability, and Family Leadership

by J. Ward

Overview

Good planning is more than just thinking ahead; businesses need a strategic approach to ensuring their success. Keeping the Family Business Healthy provides readers with a guide to strategic thinking, including how to maintain growth, how to shape business direction, preparing for new leadership, and working with a large and diverse family base.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230111219
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	01/11/2011
Series:	A Family Business Publication
Edition description:	2011
Pages:	286
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword; L.A.Danco Preface The Author The Challenge of Keeping a Family Firm Alive Overcoming Barriers to Long-Term Business Health Ensuring Family Interests in Leading the Business Assessing the Firm's Financial and Market Situation Developing a Strategic Plan for the Business Planning the Family's Role in the Company's Future Shaping a Business Strategy that Includes the Family The Transition to New Leadership: Promoting a Revitalized Business Vision and Strategy Epilogue: Making the Commitment to Plan for Future Generations Appendix A: Family Business Values Questionnaire Appendix B: Sample Financial Analysis of Business Appendix C: Strategic Planning Worksheets Appendix D: Sample Business Strategic Plan Appendix E: Sample Family Strategic Plan Appendix F: Democratic Capitalism Appendix G: Note on Research on Family Business References Index