Family Meetings: How to Build a Stronger Family and a Stronger Business

Family Meetings: How to Build a Stronger Family and a Stronger Business, 2nd Edition demonstrates the value of family meetings and how to effectively use family meetings to achieve family and business milestones. The 2nd edition contains more exhibits, tables and examples of how to assure success when having meetings. In its information-packed pages you'll learn: ten benefits of effective family meetings; how to use family meetings to plan for future ownership and participation in the family business; how to use family meetings to preserve family traditions and history and to recognize and resolve conflicts; the key questions to be dealt with at family meetings; how to organize and run effective family meetings; how family meetings change as the business evolves; how to separate family issues from business issues; how to use rituals and ceremonies for bonding and recognition; how to have family retreats; activities to energize family meetings and much more Family Meetings is one of the most important resources available for ensuring family business continuity. Building family participation and commitment results in shared values and collective decisions that strengthen the business and the family.