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Our curated collection of the most insightful, useful, and relevant resources about family enterprise. We sift through publications around the world, and bring you a carefully chosen selection of the books, articles, videos, cases and knowledge worth sharing.
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Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World
Colin B. Carter, Jay W. Lorsch
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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
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Both/and Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems
Wendy Smith, Marianne Lewis
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Breaking Through Gridlock: The Power of Conversation in a Polarized World
Jason Jay, Gabriel Grant, Peter Senge
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Building a Successful Family Business Board
Jennifer M. Pendergast, John L. Ward, Stephanie Brun de Pontet
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Como Liderar Empresas Familiares
Arménio Rego, Alexandre Dias da Cunha, Filipe S. Fernandes Miguel Pina e Cunha
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Creating Effective Boards for Private Enterprises: Meeting the Challenges of Continuity and Competition
John Ward
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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
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Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
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Digital Detox: The Ultimate Guide To Beating Technology Addiction, Cultivating Mindfulness, and Enjoying More Creativity, Inspiration, And Balance In Your Life!
Damon Zahariades
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Entrepreneurs in Every Generation: How Successful Family Businesses Develop Their Next Leaders
Allan R. Cohen, Pramodita Sharma
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Family Business Governance: Maximizing Family and Business Potential
Craig E. Aronoff PhD, John Ward
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Family Business on the Couch
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries, Randel S. Carlock, Elizabeth Florent-Treacy
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Family Business Studies: An Annotated Bibliography
Alfredo De Massis, Pramodita Sharma, Jess Chua, James Chrisman
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Family Enterprise: Understanding Families in Business and Families of Wealth
Inc The Family Firm Institute
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Family Firms in Latin America
Claudio G. Müller, Isabel C. Botero, Allan Discua Cruz, Ram Subramanian
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Family Multinationals: Entrepreneurship, Governance, and Pathways to Internationalization
Christina Lubinski, Jeffrey Fear, Paloma Fernández Pérez
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Family Office Navigator: Your Guide to Building a Multigenerational Family Office
Peter Vogel, Mario Marconi, CFEG Contributors: Courtney Collette, Martin Liechti, Marius Holzer, John Davis
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Family Philanthropy Navigator: The inspirational guide for philanthropic families on their giving journey
Peter Vogel, Etienne Eichenberger, Malgorzata Kurak
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Family Trusts: A Guide for Beneficiaries, Trustees, Trust Protectors, and Trust Creators
Hartley Goldstone, James E. Hughes, Keith Whitaker
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Family Wars: The Real Stories behind the Most Famous Family Business Feuds
Grant Gordon, Nigel Nicholson
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From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
Arthur C. Brooks
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Generation Impact: How Next Gen Donors Are Revolutionizing Giving
Sharna Goldseker, Michael Moody
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Generations of Giving
Kelin E. Gersick, Michelle Desjardins, Deanne Stone, Katherine Grady, Howard Muson
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Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America’s Future
Jean M. Twenge, PhD
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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, Bruce Patton
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Governance in Family Enterprises: Maximizing Economic and Emotional Success
A. Koeberle-Schmid, D. Kenyon-Rouvinez, E. Poza, Inoguchi Inoguchi
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Growing Pains: Transitioning from an Entrepreneurship to a Professionally Managed Firm
Eric G. Flamholtz, Yvonne Randle
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Handbook of Research on Family Business
Kosmas X. Smyrnios, Panikkos Zata Poutziouris, Sanjay Goel
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Harvard Business Review on Teams That Succeed
Jon R. Katzenbach, David A. Garvin, Etienne C. Wenger
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In Praise of Nepotism: A History of Family Enterprise from King David to George W. Bush
Adam Bellow
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Italian Dynasties: The Great Families of Italy from the Renaissance to the Present Day
Edward Burman
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Keep the Family Baggage Out of the Family Business: Avoiding the Seven Deadly Sins That Destroy Family Businesses
Quentin J. Fleming
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Keeping the Family Business Healthy: How to Plan for Continuing Growth, Profitability, and Family Leadership
J. Ward
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Knowledge and the Family Business: The Governance and Management of Family Firms in the New Knowledge Economy
Manlio Del Giudice, Maria Rosaria Della Peruta, Elias G. Carayannis
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Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator’s Dilemma
Charles A. O'Reilly III, Michael L. Tushman
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Leadership without Ego: How to stop managing and start leading
Bob Davids, Brian M. Carney, Isaac Getz
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Leading Digital: Turning Technology into Business Transformation
George Westerman, Didier Bonnet, Andrew McAfee
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Making a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director Way
Gerry Brown
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Managing for the Future: Organizational Behavior and Processes
Deborah G. Ancona, Thomas A. Kochan
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Managing For The Long Run: Lessons In Competitive Advantage From Great Family Businesses
Danny Miller, Isabelle Le Breton-Miller
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Mastering Global Corporate Governance
by Ulrich Steger, Peter Lorange, Fred Neubauer, John L. Ward, Bill George
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More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources—and What Happens Next
Andrew McAfee
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Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond
Deepak Malhotra
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Passing the Torch: Succession, Retirement, and Estate Planning in Family-Owned Businesses
Mike Cohn
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Preparing Heirs: Five Steps to a Successful Transition of Family Wealth and Values
Roy Williams, Vic Preisser
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Raised Healthy, Wealthy & Wise: Lessons from successful and grounded inheritors on how they got that way
Coventry Edwards-Pitt
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Re-Entrepreneuring: How Organizations Can Reignite Their Entrepreneurial Spirit
Charles-Edouard Bouée, Stefan Schaible
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Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage in Human Consciousness
Frederic Laloux
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Rewire Your Habits: Establish Goals, Evolve Your Habits, And Improve Your Relationships, Health, Finances, And Free Time
Zoe McKey
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Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Brené Brown
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Seeing What’s Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change
Clayton M. Christensen, Erik A. Roth
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Silver Spoon Kids : How Successful Parents Raise Responsible Children
Eileen Gallo, Jon J. Gallo, Kevin J. Gallo
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Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities
Adam Kahane
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Splendour & Squalor: The Disgrace and Disintegration of Three Aristocratic Dynasties
Marcus Scriven
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Startup Boards: Getting the Most Out of Your Board of Directors
Brad Feld, Mahendra Ramsinghani
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Startup Leadership: How Savvy Entrepreneurs Turn Their Ideas Into Successful Enterprises
Derek Lidow
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Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well
Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen
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The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business
Patrick M. Lencioni
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The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America’s Leading Design Firm
Tom Kelley, Jonathan Littman, Tom Peters
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The Art of Selling the Family Business: Responsible Stewardship of Family Wealth
Dr. Jonathan G Pellegrin, Dr. John A Davis
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The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
Guy Kawasaki
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The Complete Family Office Handbook: A Guide for Affluent Families and the Advisors Who Serve Them
Kirby Rosplock
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The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth
Amy Edmondson
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The Financially Intelligent Parent: 8 Steps To Raising Successful, Generous, Responsible Children
Eileen Gallo, Ph.D., Jon J. Gallo, J.D.
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The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup
Noam Wasserman
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The Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth
Chris Zook, James Allen
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The French Rothschilds: The Great Banking Dynasty Through Two Turbulent Centuries
Herbert R. Lottman
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The Giving Way to Happiness: Stories and Science Behind the Life-Changing Power of Giving
Jenny Santi
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The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations
Harvard Business Review
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The Invincible Company: How to Constantly Reinvent Your Organization with Inspiration From the World’s Best Business Models
Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Alan Smith, Frederic Etiemble
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The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Eric Ries
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The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money
Ron Lieber
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The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow
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The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work
Theresa Amabile, Steven Kramer
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The Resilience Factor: 7 Keys to Finding Your Inner Strength and Overcoming Life’s Hurdles
Karen Reivich, Andrew Shatte Ph.D.
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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
Erik Brynjolfsson , Andrew McAfee
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The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
Charles R. Morris
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The Warren Buffett Way: Investment Strategies of the World’s Greatest Investor
Robert G. Hagstrom
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Understanding Entrepreneurial Family Businesses in Uncertain Environments
by Mattias Nordqvist, Giuseppe Marzano, Esteban Brenes, Gonzalo Jimenez, Maria Fonseca-Paredes
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Understanding Financial Statements: Master the Tools That Help You Succeed
James Gill, Moira Chatton
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Wealth Management Unwrapped, Revised and Expanded: Unwrap What You Need to Know and Enjoy the Present
Charlotte B. Beyer
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Why Me? Wealth: Creating, Receiving and Passing It On
Denise Kenyon-Rouvinez, Thierry Lombard, Matthieu Ricard, John L. Ward
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