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Family Business Conflict Archetypes, Frames, Roles, and Tactics are discussed in this book with a view toward educating readers to the common conflict cycles that family businesses encounter. More specifically the book will address twelve conflicts that are common in family owned businesses, how to spot them and how to resolve them.
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Managing Conflict in the Family Business Family Business Publications are the combined efforts of the Family Business Consulting Group and Palgrave Macmillan. These books provide useful information on a broad range of topics that concern the family business enterprise, including succession planning, communication, strategy and growth, family leadership, and more. The books are written by experts with combined experiences of over a century in the field of family enterprise and who have consulted with thousands of enterprising families the world over, giving the reader practical, effective, and time-tested insights to everyone involved in a family business. , founded in 1994, is the leading business consultancy exclusively devoted to helping family enterprises prosper across generations. FAMILY BUSINESS LEADERSHIP SERIES This series of books is comprised of concise guides and thoughtful compendiums to the most pressing issues that anyone involved in a family firm may face. Each volume covers a different topic area and provides the answers to some of the most common and challenging questions. Titles include: Developing Family Business Policies: Your Guide to the Future Effective Leadership in the Family Business Family Business Compensation Family Business Governance: Maximizing Family and Business Potential Family Business Ownership: How to Be an Effective Shareholder Family Business Succession: The Final Test of Greatness Family Business Values: How to Assure a Legacy of Continuity and Success The Family Constitution: Agreements to Secure and Perpetuate Your Family and Your Business Family Education for Business-Owning Families: Strengthening Bonds by Learning Together Family Meetings: How to Build a Stronger Family and a Stronger Business Financing Transitions: Managing Capital and Liquidity in the Family Business From Siblings to Cousins: Prospering in the Third Generation and Beyond How Families Work Together How to Choose and Use Advisors: Getting the Best Professional Family Business Advice Working for a Family Business: A Non-Family Employee’s Guide to Success Letting Go: Preparing Yourself to Relinquish Control of the Family Business Make Change Your Family Business Tradition More than Family: Non-Family Executives in the Family Business Nurturing the Talent to Nurture the Legacy: Career Development in the Family Business Preparing Successors for Leadership: Another Kind of Hero Preparing Your Family Business for Strategic Change Siblings and the Family Business: Making It Work for Business, the Family, and the Future Managing Conflict in the Family Business: Understanding Challenges at the Intersection of Family and Business All of the books were written by members of the Family Business Consulting Group and are based on both our experiences with thousands of client families as well as our empirical research at leading research universities the world over. Managing Conflict in the Family Business Understanding Challenges at the Intersection of Family and Business Kent Rhodes and David Lansky MANAGING CONFLICT IN THE FAMILY BUSINESS Copyright © Family Business Consulting Group, 2013. All rights reserved. First published in 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered i