Entrepreneurs in Every Generation: How Successful Family Businesses Develop Their Next Leaders
Allan Cohen · Pramodita Sharma
Jun 2016 · Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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264
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About this ebook
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.
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.
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.
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.
About the author
Allan R. Cohen is the Edward A. Madden Distinguished Professor of Global Leadership at Babson College. He spent seven years as Babson College’s chief academic officer, leading major curriculum and organizational changes. He has an MBA and a DBA from Harvard and is the coauthor of the bestselling books Managing for Excellence and Influence without Authority.
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 PhD 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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