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Unconventional Wisdom : Counterintuitive Insights for Family Business Success

by John L. Ward
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Think uniquely for family business success.

Unconventional Wisdom highlights how family-owned businesses can succeed in today's business landscape by adopting unconventional strategies. John Ward provides readers with unique insights that other businesses may not contemplate, and shows that family businesses can leverage their strategic and cultural uniqueness for enduring success. If you are running or planning to start a family-owned business, this book can help you navigate the challenges and benefits of simultaneously serving business needs and family goals.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Unconventional Wisdom : Counterintuitive Insights for Family Business Success

by John L. Ward
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ISBN: 9780470021651
Authors: John L. Ward
Publisher: Wiley
Date of Publication: 2005-07-11
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Business, Personal Development
Related Topics: Entrepreneurship, Management, Business, Leadership, Personal Development
Goodreads rating: 3.83
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Family businesses prosper by pursuing unconventional strategies. Because they are values-driven and think very long-term, they take approaches not popular with current management fashion or most companies. That is the key to their competitive advantage. However, family businesses must find ways to simultaneously serve business needs and family goals, which require very different priorities and principles. As a result, they must think paradoxically, and find insights that single-purpose enterprises need not contemplate. They must dare to be different. Family business requires a different governance system, but it must nevertheless be one that can be controlled. Building on insights from the worldâ??s premier family business executive education course, this book offers the Unconventional Wisdom needed to leverage the strategic and cultural uniqueness of a family business for enduring success.
 

Think uniquely for family business success.

Unconventional Wisdom highlights how family-owned businesses can succeed in today's business landscape by adopting unconventional strategies. John Ward provides readers with unique insights that other businesses may not contemplate, and shows that family businesses can leverage their strategic and cultural uniqueness for enduring success. If you are running or planning to start a family-owned business, this book can help you navigate the challenges and benefits of simultaneously serving business needs and family goals.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.