Whether you are an experienced family business or family office executive, board member, owner, or next-generation family member, George Isaac has written the definitive handbook on the challenges of managing a multi-generational family enterprise. His 5-star "Amazon's #1 New Release" rated book* discusses best practices for all of the key issues associated with family businesses. As a professional consultant, board member, speaker, and prior third-generation CEO, Isaac has been helping families start, build, transition, and maintain their enterprises for more than forty years. Using real-world experiential examples full of case studies, best practices, suggested operating policies, and implementation checklists, Isaac introduces - Seven essential initiatives for business survival and growth - Techniques to navigate family dynamics and prevent and manage conflict - Strategies for establishing effective family and business governance - A road map to forming and executing a workable (and living) succession plan - Practical approaches to multigenerational family and business wealth management - Training on understanding and analyzing financial statements for non-financially oriented family members. - Tips for preparing the next generation for success, in or outside of the family business. Avoid the pitfalls and traps that keep most family businesses from surviving past the current generation. Build a multigenerational family business legacy that lasts with this indispensable guide. *Amazon's "#1 New Release" Ratings recognized for: - Corporate Governance - Business Conflict Resolution & Mediation - Organizational Change - Strategy & Competition

The Business of Family teaches readers how to write their own family business plan using time-tested strategies from the corporate world to provide a practical, user-friendly method that ensures their family knows where it's been, where it's headed, and how it's going to get there.

In Building a Successful Family Business Board , the authors show why private firms need the in-depth expertise and objective feedback that a well-chosen board, including qualified independent directors, can provide, and demonstrates how owners and directors can work together to ensure a long and profitable life for the firm.

Despite trillions of dollars spent and the development of welfare programs, poverty has actually gotten much worse. Nationally, 30% of black families live below the poverty line, an increase of 20% since 1969. Lee Jenkins knows that poverty is not corrected by a redistribution of wealth, but by the transformation of people. In his new book, he offers readers comprehensive strategies for setting goals in the areas of family, faith, friends, finances, and fitness.

The family agreement is becoming a prime objective to a successful family business. Designed for families planning to draft such an agreement, families deciding whether or not to begin the process, and those that have already established a family agreement, this book illustrates the fundamental components and their importance to the success of the family business. A family agreement or constitution is the expression of purpose for the continuity of the business and the process of creating one is just as important.

Family, wealth and legacy are really what it all boils down to, isn't it? Did we love and were we loved? Did we acquire wealth, whether tangible, relational or spiritual? Did we make a difference? Your Family Legacy is a simple and easy read designed to get you thinking about retirement, estate planning and passing your 'true wealth' to the next generation. When we talk about wealth we include not only money and our assets but everything that is important to us....our values, our knowledge and our family business. The goal of this book is for every reader to walk away with one new idea that you can use to create, grow, keep and share every form of wealth that is important to you. One idea that you implement for generations to come.

Generation to Generation will help managers understand the special dynamics & challenges that family businesses face as they move through their life cycles. It explains how to handle succession, & the role of non-family professionals.

It's so important that the generations to come understand and share in the founder's vision and philosophy. Authors Aronoff and Ward help leaders discover their own values and then they provide ways to infuse these values into the fabric of their business for generations to come.

In a world where racism, violence, illness, and poverty can feel so overwhelming that we often close our eyesand our heartsto the suffering around us, we may not believe we have the power to change things. As Barbara Greenspan Shaiman shows us in Live Your Legacy Now!, this simply isnt so. This part memoir and part how-to guide provides the tools and strategies to help you create meaningful change in your own life as well as in the lives of others. The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Shaiman shares stories from her family history and over thirty years of her own life experience as a successful educator, business woman, and social entrepreneur to inspire and guide you to create a vision and plan for initiating a personal legacy. Shaiman details her effective ten-step approach by helping you: Identify your core values, interests, and skills Reflect on how you can use these assets to create meaningful projects that make a difference locally or globally Share these experiences with family, colleagues, and friends to create cultures of caring at home, at work, and in your community Live Your Legacy Now! provides a simple formula to help people of all ages and backgrounds live richer, more meaningful lives by creating projects for personal growth and social change.