TY - BOOK AU - Ward, John L. TI - Perpetuating the family business SN - 9781403933973 PY - 2004/// CY - PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - HD INDUSTRIES. LAND USE. LABOR KW - Family corporations Management KW - Family-owned business enterprises KW - Management KW - Success in business KW - Family corporations KW - Case studies KW - Family-owned enterprises KW - Success business N1 - 50 lessons learned from long-lasting, successful families in business; 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-- N2 - 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 ER -