Working for a Family Business: A Non-Family Employee's Guide to Success

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Springer, Apr 30, 2016 - Business & Economics - 120 pages
Eckrich and McClure provide a greater understanding of what a family business really is and how they differ from other companies and work environments. Designed to provide insight into the family and its behavior and to integrate the non-family employee into its unique structure.
 

Contents

Your Role in a Special Partnership
1
2 What Makes a Family Business Unique?
6
3 The Value of Family to a Family Business
17
4 When Theres Conflict and There Will Be Conflict
28
From a Founder to Sons and Daughters
43
From Sibling Control to NextGeneration Cousins
52
7 Understanding a FamilyFirst Business
59
8 What about BusinessFirst Companies?
65
10 More Understanding of the Soup Youre In
83
Maximizing Your Success
97
12 Summary
109
NOTES
111
SUGGESTED ADDITIONAL READINGS
112
INDEX
113
THE AUTHORS
118
Copyright

9 When Crisis Looms
70

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CHRISTOPHER J. ECKRICH Principal of The Family Business Consulting Group, Inc., an adjunct faculty member at The University of Notre Dame, USA, and has served as a founding advisor to The Family Business Center at the University of St. Francis.

STEPHEN L. McCLURE Principal at the Family Business Consulting Group, Inc. and specializes in family communications and decision making, succession planning and implementation, and governance & management in family firms.

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