Reconciling Relationships and Preserving the Family Business: Tools fo

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Learn how to keep family problems from affecting the family business! Reconciling Relationships and Preserving the Family Business: Tools for Success presents a comprehensive model for reconciling fractured relationships within the business-owning family. Studies show that more than two-thirds of family-owned businesses don't survive past the first generation—and more than 90 percent of... Read more

Learn how to keep family problems from affecting the family business!

Reconciling Relationships and Preserving the Family Business: Tools for Success presents a comprehensive model for reconciling fractured relationships within the business-owning family. Studies show that more than two-thirds of family-owned businesses don't survive past the first generation—and more than 90 percent of all business enterprises in the United States are owned by families. Written by the founders of the Carmel Institute for Family Business, this unique book is an essential tool for people involved in family businesses, where personal issues can mix with financial interdependencies and work grievances to cause professional failures independent of bad management, market conditions, or financial constraints.

Reconciling Relationships and Preserving the Family Business is a practical and concise guide to building healthy families and collaborative family business teams that last for generations. The book introduces the ideology that frames the Reconciliation Model for relationship repair, and defines two main systemic problems facing business-owning families: oppression and disengagement. It also presents an in-depth study of a business-owning family, demonstrating how the Reconciliation Model works—step-by-step.

Reconciling Relationships and Preserving the Family Business addresses, including:

basic principles of relationships in business-owning families
individual dynamics that account for human dilemmas
power issues
effective intervention in troubled relationships
assessing relationship patterns
family structure and process
roles, responsibilities, and ethics of advisors working with family-owned businesses
and much more!

Reconciling Relationships and Preserving the Family Business is a vital resource for members of business-owning families and for the professional people who advise them: lawyers, therapists, bankers, clinical social workers, accountants, consultants, and therapists. The book is invaluable for teaching you to recognize real or potential relational problems that can have an adverse effect on the family business.

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Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Relationships in Business-Owning Families
Chapter 1. The Past and Present Merge
The Past: Individual Development
Relationships: Making the Past Present
Choosing to Change
Ideology Underlying the Reconciliation Approach
Aiming for Reconciliation
Chapter 2. Family and Family Business Systems
Why Consider a Systems Perspective?
Understanding Systems: A Practical Approach
Context
Family Structure
Family Process
Unspoken Issues in Family Systems: Emotion and Normality
Gathering Initial Information
Systems Thinking: A Review of Principles
Chapter 3. Oppression in Business-Owning Families
Oppressive Systems
The Main Roles in Systems of Oppression
The Impact of Oppression on Family Business
Change Is Possible
Challenging Oppression
Chapter 4. Disengaged Families
The Importance of Cohesion in Families
Fractured or Severed Family Connections
Unconnected Business-Owning Families
Recognizing Disengagement
The Prospect of Reconciliation
Part II. The Reconciliation Model in Practice
Chapter 5. A Reconciliation Model Overview
Why Family Business Relationships Need Repair
The Model’s Origins
Profiling the Model
Applying the Model
Guiding Principals for Advisors
Conclusion
Interlude 1: Meet the Sampsons, a Business-Owning Family
First Contacts
Compilation of Initial family Information
Getting an Agreement to Proceed
Chapter 6. Stage I: Recognize
About the Truth
Task #1: Make Contact
Task #2: Seek Relationship Truth
Task #3: Create Common Understanding
Task #4: Determine Who Participates
Task #5: Understand Change and Overcome Resistance
Task #6: Form Contracts
Task #7: Prepare Family Members for Participation in Reconciliation Efforts
Interlude 2: Setting the Stage for Reconciliation
Arranging Interviews with Sampson Family Members
Meeting with Local Family Members
Meeting with David Sampson and His Family
Chapter 7. Stage II: Reconsider
Tool #1: Provide a Safe Place
Tool #2: Establish Ground Rules
Tool #3: Provide Continuous Support
Tool #4: Acknowledge Peoples Memories
Tool #5: Teach People to Listen—to Learn and Understand
Tool #6: Orchestrate Responsive and Respectful Dialogue
Tool #7: Help Participants Apologize and Move Toward Forgiveness
Tool #8: Consider the Future
Interlude 3: The Heart of the Work
Arrival
Day One: Morning
Day One: Afternoon
Day Two: Morning
Day Two: Afternoon
Day Three: Morning
Day Three: Afternoon
Day Four: Morning
Day Four: Afternoon
Chapter 8. Stage III: Rebuild
Goal #1: Build and Preserve Trust
Goal #2: Foster Collaboration
Goal #3: Establish Reconciliation Practices
Goal #4: Grow Healthy-Interacting Families
Moving On
Interlude 4: Moving into the Future
Building Trust and Collaboration: Benton
Finishing with the Family
Sampson Seed Company: An Epilogue
Chapter 9. Being the Best We Can Be
Who is the Client?
What About Confidentiality?
Maintaining Neutrality—Is It Possible?
The Team Approach to Advising
Saying Good-bye and Moving On
Conclusion
References
Index

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Ruth Mcclendon, Leslie B Kadis

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