Family Businesses: The Essentials

Family Businesses: The Essentials

by PeterLeach (Author)

Synopsis

Family firms are to be found in every sector of commercial activity, and their special strengths mean that they flourish best where their advantages can be fully exploited. Family Businesses: The Essentials is a comprehensive guide to every aspect of managing a family-owned firm, from day-to-day issues to long-term planning for future generations. This new and completely revised version of the author's previous Guide to the Family Business (Kogan Page; last edition 1999) provides an accessible introduction to newcomers, and also offers knowledgeable business people fresh insight and solutions to the special problems they face. All family businesses are different, but it is critical for each to define its shared family values, vision and purpose. Family Businesses: The Essentials shows how to achieve this, and how to allow each generation to reinterpret and revitalise that vision. Fresh, updated and more sharply focused, packed with real-life case studies, and drawing on the author's extensive research into thousands of family businesses, this is essential guidance for every stage of a family business's development.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Publisher: Profile Business
Published: 26 Apr 2007

ISBN 10: 1861978618
ISBN 13: 9781861978615

Media Reviews
Peter Leach's style is rich in observation, insight and example. This is a great read - comprehensive and authoritative, yet entirely fresh and forward-looking in its outlook. -- Professor Nigel Nicholson * London Business School *
An essential and accessible source for enquiring family business owners, managers and other stakeholders. -- Alex Scott * Institute for Family Business *
...a mixture of academic-style study and practical advice...much food for thought here. * New Business Magazine *
...shows the pitfalls, tensions and competing demands that can destroy family businesses...offers real insights and help. * Business Executive Magazine *
Author Bio
Peter Leach is seen as the founding father of family business thinking in the UK and pioneered research in the field in the 80's. He founded the Stoy Centre for Family Business, and was previously a partner at BDO LLP. He founded his own business, Peter Leach & Partners LLP, in 2008, which won the STEP Family Business Advisor of the Year 2013/14 before being acquired by Deloitte LLP in 2015. He is now a partner at Deloitte leading the family Enterprise Consulting practice there.