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Reading List

Craig E. Aronoff and John L. Ward

• Family Business Succession: The Final Test of Greatness
• Family Meetings: How to Build a Stronger Family and a Stronger Business
• Another Kind of Hero: Preparing Successors for Leadership
• How Families Work Together
• Family Business Compensation
• How to Choose and Use Advisors: Getting the Best Professional Family Business Advice
• Financing Transitions: Managing Capital and Liquidity in the Family Business
• Family Business Governance: Maximizing Family and Business Potential
• Preparing Your Family Business for Strategic Change
• Making Sibling Teams Work: The Next Generation
• Developing Family Business Policies: Your Guide to the Future
• Family Business Values: How to Assure a Legacy of Continuity and Success
• More Than Family: Non-Family Executives in the Family Business
• Make Change Your Family Business Tradition
• Family Business Ownership: How to be an Effective Shareholder
• Conflict and Communication in the Family Business
• Letting Go: Preparing Yourself to Relinquish Control
• Nurturing the Talent to Nurture the Legacy: Career Development in the Family Business
• Working for a Family Business: A Non-Family Employee's Guide to Success
• The Family Constitution: Agreements to Secure and Perpetuate Your Family and Your Business
• Effective Leadership in the Family Business

Stephen Covey

• How to Develop a Family Mission Statement
• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families

Michael Gerber

• The E-Myth Revisited

Spencer Johnson

• Who Moved My Cheese

Ivan Lansberg

• Succeeding Generations

Gerald Le Van

• The Survival Guide for Business Families

Patrick Lencioni

• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

D. Patrick Miller

• A Little Book of Forgiveness

Susan Scott

• Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work & in Life, One Conversation at a Time

Lee Thayer

• Leadership: Thinking, Being, Doing

John L. Ward

• Keeping the Family Business Healthy: How to Plan for Continuing Growth, Profitability & Family Leadership
• Creating Effective Boards for Private Enterprises
• Strategic Planning for the Family Business: Parallel Planning to Unify the Family and Business