John L. Ward — новинки

Benefits Management 2e

Strategies for family firms, unlike those of other businesses, can and should incorporate family factors. Responsible and disciplined strategic integration of family and business goals, strengths and values produces powerful results.

In Preparing Your Family Business For Strategic Change, you'll learn:

* How to reach your family business's strategic potential

* How to make change your tradition

* How to prevent past successes from limiting future ones

* How to recognize and use your family business's advantages

* How to overcome family business disadvantages

* How to depersonalize successes to benefit the business and the family

* How to create a strategic culture

Creating and implementing successful family business strategy is no abstract planning process. It requires family business leaders to understand the real reasons for success, to create a culture of change, and to manage incremental strategic experiments in ways that consistently stimulate strategic thinking. Preparing Your Family Business For Strategic Change shows you how.

Book DescriptionAs grandson of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller Sr. and son of philanthropist John D. Jr., Winthrop Rockefeller was born into one of the most affluent and influential families in the world. But he was a nonconformist and often felt

Strategic Planning for Information Systems

If a family-owned company is to endure and provide the maximum potential opportunity for future generations, it must plan for provision of both adequate shareholder liquidity and sufficient business capital. Many believe their options are limited: restrict money available to the family; sell the business; or go public. Rather than allowing financial pressures to destroy the family business, careful planning and sophisticated use of the growing collection of financial techniques can help the familyretain business control and make wise choices among many available alternatives. Francois deVisscher, one of the nation's leading authorities on family business finance, joins Drs. Aronoff and Ward in producing this volume. Financing Transitions: Managing Capital and Liquidity in The Family Business is a guide to: * anticipating and managing capital and liquidity needs; * understanding how the "Family Effect" can be a family business' greatest asset--or its greatest threat; * evaluating two dozenup-to-date, sophisticated financial solutions for providing liquidity and capital for the family business; * recognizing how predictable family business transitions can erupt into family crises; * avoiding the downward liquidity spiral; * keeping patient capital from becoming impatient; * controlling the family business's cost of capital; and much more... Financing Transitions: Managing Capital and Liquidity in the Family Business gives business owners the financial insight and understanding needed to provide future generations with the fullest possible opportunity to enjoy the unique benefits of business ownership.

Compensation matters are among the most frequently asked * and complicated questions facing business-owning families. What is * fair? How can the rewards of ownership be distinguished from pay for * performance? How can the owner motivate and

How Families Work Together emphasizes how to build * positive and constructive family relations by learning to make the * characteristics and dynamics of family life work for you. Dr. Mary * Whiteside of the Ann Arbor Center for the Family, a *