Are you a member of a family in business together or, do you know someone in a family business? Then you know the challenges associated with running a successful family business and maintaining good family relationships. This book will provide practical advice and ideas for both running the business and keeping your family relationships close and strong.
Family businesses are wonderful. They provide a great environment for family and extended family to work together. Except when the relationships don’t work! Then the impact to the family, the business and the employees can be catastrophic. The book features way to minimize (notice it doesn’t say eliminate) family conflict, business stress and potential business failure.
• Learn more about: Joys, challenges, opportunities and threats in a family business
• How to improve communication within the family and the business
• Upsides and downsides of the family business
• Ways to create boundaries between work and home
• Relationships between family members to each other and other employees
• How to pass the torch from one generation to another.
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Imagine how much you would learn if you could talk to 64 of the brightest minds in marketing. Now imagine if those conversations were focused on all the essential elements that go into being a top-notch chief marketing officer and organized into seven logical categories. Now you can stop imagining, and start reading The CMO’s Periodic Table, an essential resource for the modern marketer. Says best-selling author Joel Comm, “The CMO’s Periodic Table is like going to the best marketing buffet you could imagine. Each chapter is a delectable morsel of insightful commentary from some of the tastiest ‘chefs’ in the biz. Read it from cover to cover and you’ll be stuffed with insights you’ll be able to apply to just about any marketing challenge on your plate.”
The #1 cause of business failure is bad strategy and only 23% of executives are strong at strategic thinking. While strategies become obsolete, strategic thinking continues to be rated the most valued skill in leaders today by publications including the Wall Street Journal and Chief Executive Magazine. New York Times bestselling author on strategy Rich Horwath provides leaders with a simple three-step framework to become elite strategic leaders and transform strategy and innovation into competitive advantage.
Partner Your Project is a step-by-step guide on how to develop working relationships that result in successful projects that are on-time, on-budget, safe, and of quality. Even two decades after it was first published, Partner Your Project is being used in classrooms and boardrooms to help leaders and project managers develop a partnering culture on their construction projects. While written for the construction industry, there are many leadership tenets that are at the core of Partnering, like empowering others, commitment and trust. Technology has changed the way people work, but partnering has proven that successful teams work well “together.”