Family Business Toolkit

The Family Business Toolkit includes: 

• 2 Books: Prescriptions For a Healthy Family Business and You Don’t Have to Die to Win
• Audio CD: Wonder, Thunder, Plunder, or Blunder: Which Best Describes Your Family Enterprise?
• 2 Research Papers: Blunt Advice for Multi-Generation Family Companies and Conflict Resolution in Family and Closely Held Businesses
  
• The Family Business Health Assessment
• 80 Questions Every Family Business Owner Should Answer

Topics in toolkit include:

• Life Cycle of the Family Business
• Stark Differences and Incompatibilities between the Business Entity and the Family Entity
• Megatrends in Family Businesses
• Why Senior Generations Have a Hard Time Letting Go
• Ten Point Family Business Planning Checklist
• How to Develop, Cope, and Manage Family Business Money and Power
• The Ten Most Common and Costly Estate and Succession Mistakes Made by Family Business Owners
• The Perceived Future of the Family Business Management
• The Perceived Future of Family Business Ownership
• Perceptions of Company Direction by Family Members and Non-Family Owners/Managers
• Family Stages
• Business Stages
• The Male Aging Process
• Twelve Step Exit Strategies
• “Drop Dead” Planning
• Strategic Planning
• Definition of True Conflict
• Irrelevance of Past Behaviors
• The Myth that All Conflicts Are Resolvable
• The Negatives of Avoidance
• Conflict Resolution Strategies
• Tips for Third Party Mediators
• Intergenerational Transfer
• Ineffective Behaviors of Senior and Junior Generations
• Consequences of Poor Transition Planning