Unconventional Wisdom

Counterintuitive Insights for Family Business Success

John Ward

265 pages, parution le 02/08/2005

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Résumé

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 world' 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.

L'auteur - John Ward

JOHN WARD is Professor of Strategic Information Systems and Director of the Information Systems Research Centre at Cranfield University, School of Management. Before joining Cranfield in 1984, he worked in industry for 15 years and he currently acts as a consultant to a number of major organisations. He has served two terms as President of the UK Academy for Information Systems and been a member of its board since its establishment in 1994.

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Chapter 1 The Growth Dilemma in Family-Owned Firms (Peter Lorange)
Chapter 2 Unconventional Strategy: Why Family Firms Outperform (John L Ward)
Chapter 3 Strategic Planning - It Starts with the Family (John L Ward)
Chapter 4 How Family Business Culture is Different (Colleen Lief and Daniel Denison)
Chapter 5 Understanding the Successor's Challenges (Joachim Schwass)
Chapter 6 An Effective Successor Development Strategy (Joachim Schwass)
Chapter 7 Resolving Conflict in Family Businesses: Don't Be a Hostage to Family Harmony (George Kohlrieser)
Chapter 8 Effective Family Communications: It's Not What's Said That's Important, But What's Heard (Jean L Kahwajy)
Chapter 9 The Family Constitution: It's the Process That Counts, Not the Content (John L Ward)
Chapter 10 Good News for Family Firms: You Don't Need to Worry about the New Rules in Corporate Governance But... (Ulrich Steger)
Chapter 11 The Value of Hands-On Ownership (John L Ward)
Chapter 12 Counterintuitive Insights (Colleen Lief and John L Ward)

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Wiley
Auteur(s)	John Ward
Parution	02/08/2005
Nb. de pages	265
Format	17 x 21
Couverture	Broché
Poids	430g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780470021651
ISBN13	978-0-470-02165-1