Perpetuating the Family Business

1. Front Matter

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2. Frameworks for Family Businesses that Last

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Ultimate Management Challenge

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      Pages 3-9

   3. The Five Insights and The Four P’s

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      Pages 10-30

   4. A Vision for the Future

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      Pages 31-39

3. The Lessons

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-42

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   2. Stage I: The Owner-Managed Business

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      Pages 43-65

   3. Stage II: The Sibling Partnership

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      Pages 66-101

   4. Stage III: The Cousin Collaboration

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      Pages 102-143

   5. Taking the Longest View

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      Pages 144-155

4. Back Matter

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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.

• business
• family business
• management
• success

JOHN L. WARD is Wild Group Professor of Family Business, IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland, Director of the Kellogg School Centre of Family Enterprises, Northwestern University, USA and founder of the Family Business Consulting Group International. He is recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on family business governance.

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