Business Week Book Club Selection

"Shows how to make good business and good
family go hand-in-hand."

This book is for you if:

  1. you're considering starting a family business.
  2. you need to make yours more successful. A gold mine of insights, time-tested answers, and step-by-step prescriptions that relate to any family business. Provides carefully balanced analysis of both family needs and sound-business perspectives on the most critical issues.

Learn the winning techniques of America's most successful family businesses, large and small. Drawing on the colorful, eye-opening experiences of more than 60 successful family businesses across the country, The Entrepreneurial Family provides detailed advice on everything from diffusing family rivalries to launching business spin-offs›from controlling overhead and expenses to devising even-handed and workable promotion policies›from letting "outsiders" in, to letting disaffected family member out.

Find out how to:

  • Decide whether to start a family business.
  • Structure your enterprise for success.
  • Solve the kinds of problems and capitalize on the opportunities unique to a family business.
  • Reconcile conflicts between family and business interests.
  • Train the successor generation without spoiling them.
"Roger Fritz-friend and associate-breaks new ground with The Entrepreneurial Family. I feel sure family businesses around the world will benefit from the insight, eloquence, and down-to-earth common sense bound into this 'College for the Family Entrepreneur'."
-- Gary Player, Golf Professional, Businessman, Entrepreneur