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When Family Businesses are Best:The Parallel Planning Process for Family Harmony and Business Success

Abstract

Families are about caring and businesses are about money: making family business an unlikely formula for a successful partnership. Yet those are the facts and family businesses around the world have found that the Parallel Planning Process linking family and business values, vision, strategy, investment and governance is critical to business performance and family harmony. 272 pages.

Type

Book

Author(s)

John L. Ward, Randel S Carlock

Date Published

2010

Citations

Ward, John L., and Randel S Carlock. 2010. When Family Businesses are Best:The Parallel Planning Process for Family Harmony and Business Success.

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