John L Ward

55 thoughts in this book draw on John L Ward.

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• Perpetuating the Family Business: 50 Lessons Learned from Long-Lasting Successful Families in Business · 55 thoughts

The thoughts

• Legacy of Values The idea of passing on a…Legacy / The Logbook
• Our mission is to fulfill our potential as individuals…Legacy / The Logbook
• Voluntary Accountability Some of the finest family business leaders…Failure & Resilience
• When I have asked them what makes them successful…Legacy / The Logbook
• (4) Social entrepreneurs see themselves as stewards of the…Friends, Community & Society
• 1Decisions & Choices
• A typical mission of such leaders is to build…Expanding Your Range
• Aggressive Gifting As soon as possible, as much as…The Landing
• An independent board serves as a regular forum where…Expanding Your Range
• As part of a system of checks and balances…True North
• As these examples suggest, families are very inventive about…Expanding Your Range
• Beginning when Punch was 11, Greenbaum gathered the children…True North
• But, as his achievements prove, that didn't mean he…Expanding Your Range
• Continuing a family business is tricky, difficult stuffExpanding Your Range
• Creative Capital Eventually often by Stage III, but sometimes…Expanding Your Range
• Even as SCI reached gigantic proportions, employing thousands, its…Expanding Your Range
• Even so, one member of the team often emerges…Expanding Your Range
• Eventually, one of the cousins or more typically, one…Expanding Your Range
• Family meetings encompass as many family members as possible…Expanding Your Range
• Family Member Development Program This lesson is an important…Expanding Your Range
• Having a minimum dividend does more than make some…True North
• In a letter to her nieces and nephews, Raya…The Instruments
• In addition, she and her mother sit with the…Expanding Your Range
• In many families, these concerns lead to a program…Expanding Your Range
• In other words, long-lasting successful business families see their…Expanding Your Range
• In the press room, one child, whose name was…The Instruments
• It is also instructive to draw the relative size…Expanding Your Range
• Large, successful business families commonly have a family council…Expanding Your Range
• One family became motivated to learn when a son…Expanding Your Range
• One family, for example, has a very strong belief…True North
• Other business-owning families turn to the public market to…Communication & Conflict
• Other families focus on developing confrontational skills, so that…Expanding Your Range
• Parenting One of the things that we can never…Expanding Your Range
• Policies Before the Need Wise business-owning families recognize that…True North
• Principle of Merit From the outset, a family business…True North
• Respect Managers and Managing An important part of being…Expanding Your Range
• Smorgon Consolidated Industries had "a place for everyone," including…Expanding Your Range
• Spirit of Enterprise The wisest business-owning families exemplify what…Expanding Your Range
• Still another communications area that families give attention to…Communication & Conflict
• The Continuity Planning Triangle illustrates the unique and complex…Expanding Your Range
• The head of a family business today must be…Expanding Your Range
• The mentor sees to it that the new in-law…Expanding Your Range
• The Owners' Pledge -We pledge to treat one another…True North
• The practical issue here is that members of a…Expanding Your Range
• They are active in the world of ideasExpanding Your Range
• They are driven by missions that force them to…Expanding Your Range
• They believe they are the creators and developers of…Expanding Your Range
• They broke the mold or they challenged conventional wisdom…The Flight Plan
• They tell the next generation, sometimes in a preamble…Expanding Your Range
• They understand that the odds of passing on a…Decisions & Choices
• They want to know such things asFamily & Parenting
• This amounts to a mandatory retirement policyTrue North
• Tradition of ChangeExpanding Your Range
• Until then, the siblings had assumed that when they…Expanding Your Range
• While there are many legitimate reasons for having a…Communication & Conflict