Perpetuating the family business 

 -  Palgrave Macmillan,  2004 
 - xi, 178 p. ; 24 cm. 
<br/><br/> 50 lessons learned from long-lasting, successful families in business 
<br/><br/>Part I: Frameworks for Family Businesses that Last   * The Ultimate Management Challenge --  * The Five Insights and the Four P's--  * A Vision of the Future --  --  Part II: The Lessons --  * Stage I: The Owner/Managed Business --  * Stage II: The Sibling Partnership --  * Stage III: The Cousin Collaboration --  * Taking the Longest View --  * Appendicies--  --  Part I: Frameworks for Family Businesses that Last --  * The Ultimate Management Challenge --  * The Five Insights and the Four P's --  * A Vision of the Future --  --  Part II: The Lessons --  * Stage I: The Owner/Managed Business --  * Stage II: The Sibling Partnership --  * Stage III: The Cousin Collaboration --  * Taking the Longest View --  * Appendicies-- 
<br/><br/> John L. Ward, a leading world expert on family business, offers the best practices of the most successful and long-lasting families in business, including Ford Motors, Marriott Hotels, Levi-Strauss, and the New York Times. He provides a framework of five insights and four principles in which to position his fifty 'lessons learned' for family business longevity. This is a comprehensive book on sustaining family businesses that contains international examples, cases, essential tools, and checklists of best practices a how-to every entrepreneur should have. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781403933973 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>HD INDUSTRIES. LAND USE. LABOR
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Family corporations Management<br/>Family-owned business enterprises--Management<br/>Success in business<br/>Family corporations--Management--Case studies<br/>Family-owned enterprises--Management--Case studies<br/>Success business--Case studies<br/>