Discover What Makes Family Businesses Beat the Odds and Thrive over Generations
Families are complicated; family businesses even more so. Like other companies, family-run enterprises must develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills. But they must also manage family dynamics that rarely mirror the best practices in the latest
Harvard Business Review
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Allan Cohen and Pramodita Sharma, scholars with deep professional and personal roots in family businesses, show how enterprising families can transmit the hunger for excellence across generations. Using examples of firms that flourished and those that failed, they describe the practices that characterize entrepreneurial individuals, families, and organizations and offer pragmatic advice that can be tailored to your unique situation.
Table of Content
Contents
1. Secrets of Successful Entrepreneurial Leaders
2. Developing Entrepreneurial Leadership Skills
3. Secrets of Successful Enterprising Families
4. Developing Enterprising Families
5. Secrets of Entrepreneurial Organizations
6. Developing Entrepreneurial Organizations
7. Action Planning—a Question of Balance and Timing
About the author
Pramodita Sharma is the Sanders Chair & Professor of Family Business at the University of Vermont and a visiting professor at the Kellogg School of Management. She has a Ph D from the University of Calgary and honorary doctorates from Jönköping University in Sweden and Witten/Herdecke University in Germany. She is the editor of Family Business Review.
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