Author: Quentin J Fleming
Publisher: Fireside
Keywords: family, sins, destroy, businesses, deadly, seven, baggage, business, avoiding
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2000-02-29
List price: $20.99
ISBN-10: 0684856042
ISBN-13: 9780684856049
Family businesses epitomize the best of the American Dream: you work hard, you’re your own boss, you leave a lasting legacy to your children -- or do you? Statistics show that only 30% of family businesses survive to the second generation, and a paltry 10% survive to the third generation. Family businesses are in trouble, and their survival is crucial to us all. Their success ensures our country’s success -- and their failure can drastically affect our economic health. In Keep the Family Baggage Out of the Family Business, family business expert Quentin Fleming has identified the
Author: James E. Hughes Jr.
Publisher: Bloomberg Press
Keywords: family, intellectual, financial, assets, generations, human, preserve, wealth, keeping, members, advisers
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-05
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 157660151X
ISBN-13: 9781576601518
This is the landmark book that changed the way exceptional families think about their heritage, their wealth, and their legacy to future generations - now revised and expanded. Charles W. Collier, Senior Philanthropic Adviser at Harvard University, hails this as, "A masterpiece. No one is more astute than Jay Hughes about the topics of family wealth and family life."
Author: John L. Ward Craig E. Aronoff
Publisher: Business Owner Resource
Keywords: family, business, leadership, series, maximizing, governance, potential
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 1996-03-04
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0965101185
ISBN-13: 9780965101189
Families in business together have an especially powerful motivation to govern themselves well-- vast and profound shared interests that often include large capital investment, future family employment prospects and the image of a family business in its community. Yet many business-owning families drift unconsciously into haphazard or destructive patterns of decisionmaking and communication that can threaten and even destroy the family and the business. Effective governance can counter those destructive patterns. It can empower leaders of the business and the family to make the most of the uni
Authors:Liana Lowenstein, Liana Lowenstein,
Publisher: Champion Pr
Keywords: family, children, engage, sessions, sociology, relationships, activities, expressive, therapy, techniques, play, art, creative
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2010-09-10
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0968519962
ISBN-13: 9780968519967
Bringing together an array of highly creative contributors, this comprehensive resource presents a unique collection of assessment and treatment techniques. Contributors illustrate how play, art, drama, and other approaches can effectively engage families and help them resolve complex problems. Practitioners from divergent theoretical orientations, work settings, or client specializations will find a plethora of stimulating and useable clinical interventions in this book.
Authors:A.K. David, D.M. Phillips, J.E. Scherger, S.A. Fie
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: family, medicine, fundamentals, clerkship, med, textbook
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2003-01-14
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0387954791
ISBN-13: 9780387954790
Fundamentals of Family Medicine, Third Edition, describes the current approach to common problems in family practice. The book tells how family physicians provide high-quality, comprehensive, and ongoing health care for patients and families, based on current evidence and time-tested methods in clinical practice. The book is intended to be a reference source for the care of diseases family physicians are likely to see and as the course textbook for medical students in family medicine clerkships in medical school. Clinical scenarios that include case studies and questions for group discussion r
Author: Rhonda Mcclure
Publisher: Family Tree Book
Keywords: family, books, tree, history, digitizing
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-08-19
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1558707085
ISBN-13: 9781558707085
Family historians know the value of preserving precious family heirlooms--old letters, diaries, photographs, Bible pages. Yet most have limited, if any, knowledge of the technology needed to safely save these items. Digitizing Your Family History gives readers the tools they need to keep these records permanently. They’ll learn to: * Utilize a scanner to best save photos and documents * Get maximum results from digital cameras * Enhance vintage photos through electronic editing * Work with printers, PDAs, and more to preserve family records * Organize digital records for easy access in l
Author: Barbara A. Mitchell
Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press,
Keywords: family, canada, sociology, introduction, matters
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 2009-01-31
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 1551303418
ISBN-13: 9781551303413
This refreshingly succinct and engaging introduction to family sociology in Canada has a strong focus on contemporary theory and research on a wide variety of substantive issues relevant to the lives of students from diverse family backgrounds. This book is organised into three interrelated areas: the study of continuity, diversity, inequality, and social change in families; the life course of families across the generations; and, critical issues facing families today, including social policy issues.
