Did you know-eighty-five percent of family firms do not survive the third generation? Your Family, Inc.: Practical Tips for Building a Healthy Family Business will help the busy entrepreneur lower this drastic failure rate by providing great tips and practical advice for creating a successful and pleasant environment when working in the family business. 

Containing unique and valuable hints for building better family business, this book uses specific examples designed for different situations. Filled with suggestions and proven advice, this important guide offers important ideas on deciding which family members should control stock, who should first work in another company to gain experience, and how to determine which individuals should make business decisions, and much more. 

From Your Family, Inc., you will discover how healthy families and healthy family firms develop practical decision-making processes which will endure for generations to come. 

This essential book provides you with practical information to help your family business improve family relations and to positively impact business now and for future generations. 

Your Family, Inc. offers you specific steps to help avoid common problems and pitfalls with such insightful tips as: 

• recognizing the dangers of a family triangle to avoid any problems before they become detrimental to the company 

• realizing the difference between being asked to respond as a family member parent, daughter, uncle, or son and when the problem relates to business 

• developing strategies to keep the family firm accountable by developing a group of advisors that may include the corporate attorney, accountant, or CEOs of non-competing industries 

• making business decisions for the right reasons, and building consensus in the family to support the decisions 

• creating criteria for future leadership in advance by recognizing the direction the industry is taking and the needs of the company and the values of the family.
  

Selected Contents:

Chapter 1: The Geometry of a Healthy Family
Keep Your Business Out of the Family Party

Chapter 2: Know Which Hat You are Wearing:
The Business Hat or the Family Hat
Know What's Inside Your Family Circle

Chapter 3: Ownership Has Its Privileges, and Its Hazards
As an Owner, Take the Long View

Chapter 4: Competition in the Family Firm:
Sibling Rivalry More Than 85 Percent of Family Firms Do Not Survive the Third Generation

Chapter 5: Preparing Your Daughter to Become CEO
Support the Development of All Her Talents

Chapter 6: Partners in Business, Partners in Marriage
Create Time and Space for Sex and Romance

Chapter 7: Not to Decide Is to Decide: Decision Making in the Family Firm Develop a Family Forum

Chapter 8: Standards of Success in Family Firms
The Best Strategy Is to Develop Your Own

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