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.