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List of figures | |
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List of tables | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Preface | |
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Why Global Business Families Need Planning | |
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Why Family Businesses Struggle | |
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Farview Electronics to be Sold? | |
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The Family Business Challenge | |
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The Competitive Advantage of a Committed Business Family | |
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The Lack of a Parallel Planning Process: The Bancroft Family Story | |
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When Family Businesses are Best | |
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Making the Parallel Family and Business Planning Process Work | |
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Cargill: From Conflict to Competitive Advantage | |
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The Benefits of Parallel Family and Business Planning | |
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The Parallel Planning Process | |
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A Parallel Planning Process User Guide | |
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Creating Human Meaning | |
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Family Values and Business Culture | |
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Family Values and Business Performance | |
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Family Values in Practice | |
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Family Business Responsibility and Fairness | |
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Identifying Your Family Values | |
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Family Business Culture | |
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When Family Businesses are Best | |
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Family and Business Vision: Exploring Family Commitment | |
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The Family Vision and Building Family Commitment | |
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Legacy-Focused Vision | |
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Business-Focused Vision | |
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Family-Focused Vision | |
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Drafting a Family Business Vision | |
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Cargill: Balancing Family Values, Expectations, Investment, and Business Potential | |
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Sustaining Family Commitment | |
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An Asian Family's Struggle to Renew Commitment | |
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When Family Businesses are Best | |
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Strategies for the Family and Business | |
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Family Strategy: Planning the Family's Participation | |
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The Sinatra "Family Business" | |
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The Advantages of Family Participation | |
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Managing Generational Transitions | |
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Family Ownership Roles | |
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Family Leadership Roles | |
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The Wates Group: Developing a Next-Generation Leadership Strategy | |
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Family Participation as a Competitive Advantage | |
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When Family Businesses are Best | |
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Business Strategy: Planning for the Firm's Future | |
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Understanding Business Planning | |
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The Need for Family Business Planning | |
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Developing Strategic Plans for Family Businesses | |
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When Family Businesses are Best | |
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Investing for Family Business Success | |
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How Dow Jones was Starved of Investment | |
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The Investment Dilemma | |
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Business Capital Needs | |
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Family Business Commitment and Ownership | |
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When Family Businesses are Best | |
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Family and Business Governance | |
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Family Business Governance and the Role of the Board of Directors | |
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The Challenges of Family Business Governance | |
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The Evolution of Family Business Ownership | |
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Parallel Family and Business Governance Activities | |
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Effective Boards of Directors | |
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The Board and the Parallel Planning Process | |
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When Family Businesses are Best | |
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Family Governance: Family Meetings and Agreements | |
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Court Orders Liquidation for City Warehouse Firm | |
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The Value of Family Governance | |
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Understanding Family Conflict | |
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Family Governance as a Tool for Conflict Prevention and Resolution | |
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Family Meetings as a Tool for Participation and Building Trust | |
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Family Agreements for Clarifying Rights and Responsibilities | |
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The Family Council - Professionalizing Family Governance | |
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Family Shareholder Agreements | |
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From Family Businesses to Family Offices and Foundations | |
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When Family Businesses are Best | |
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Family Enterprise Stewardship | |
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The Men and Women Who Plant Trees | |
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From Planting to Planning | |
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Stewardship as the Real Measure of Family Business Performance | |
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The Competitive Advantage of Stewardship | |
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Families Create Shared Success | |
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Notes | |
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Index | |