New Book Looing At Entrepreneurial Families Looking Beyond Business

World-leading experts Alfredo De Massis and Emanuela Rondi have published a new book that provides a roadmap to navigate the complexities, relationships and challenges for entrepreneurial families to prosper across generations.

The Family Business Book is your comprehensive guide to building a strategy for your entrepreneurial family to prosper now and thrive across generations into the future. With a practical roadmap, you’ll discover how to understand the subtle nuances, complexities and key challenges of the journey undertaken by entrepreneurial families across generations, how to disentangle complicated family dynamics, and how to build a strategic plan to ensure long-term success and a lasting legacy for future generations.

Full of practical templates, worksheets, reflection questions and actionable strategies, you will be guided in the development of a roadmap that allows your family to prosper across generations and in taking action to implement the roadmap.

“Expert advice on how to maintain family unity and financial prosperity across generations.”

Prof. Kimberly A. Eddleston, Editor-in-Chief of FamilyBusiness.org, Senior Editor of EIX, Schulze Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship, D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, and Academic Scholar, Cornell University, US

“This book is essential for families looking to manage their wealth and business with wisdom and foresight.”

Prof. Nadine Kammerlander, Chair of Family Business and Director of the Institute of Family Business and Mittelstand, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany

Why This Book Matters:

• Entrepreneurial families collectively own a huge proportion of the world’s wealth and have an outsized impact on society

• It is challenging for family business to succeed across generations.

• The Family Business Book draws upon 20 years of research to explore the complex relationships and dynamics that entrepreneurial families navigate and highlights these as opportunities.

• The authors are professors with both academic rigor and hands-on experience as mentors, advisors, and directors at top university family business centres

A groundbreaking exploration of family entrepreneurship, this book is a must-read for anyone involved in the intricate dance of family business and wealth management.”

Prof. Eric Clinton, Director of the Dublin City University (DCU) National Centre for Family Business

Families are the most prevalent type of business owners in any global economy. They collectively control a huge proportion of the world’s wealth and play a significant role in shaping wider society.

However, succeeding across generations is difficult. Family dynamics and emotions add an extra layer of complexity to leadership and decision making, and only few family businesses continue to prosper beyond the first generation.

So why is it that some families are able to build a legacy that will last far into the future, while others fade away?

Now a new book, written by professors and world-leading experts in entrepreneurship and family business Alfredo De Massis and Emanuela Rondi, provides a practical roadmap to help families navigate these challenges and thrive across generations. The Family Business Book blends over 20 years of research with practical, real-world experience, to provide a unique combination of academic rigor and actionable insights.

Readers will discover how to understand the subtle nuances, complexities and key challenges of the journey undertaken by entrepreneurial families across generations. Through its entrepreneurial family galaxy concept, the book shows how to disentangle complicated and emotionally charged family dynamics, to build a strategic plan that will ensure long-term success and a lasting legacy for the future.

The book is full of practical templates, worksheets, reflection questions and actionable strategies to guide readers in the development of a roadmap that allows their family business to prosper.

The Family Business Book takes a deep dive into the complex world of family business and is an essential read for family entrepreneurs, managers, professionals, business students and anyone interested in the dynamics of entrepreneurial families.

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