The Family Business Management Handbook.

The Family Business Management Handbook: The Complete Resource For Building And Managing A Family Owned Company, by The Editors of Family Business magazine. Philadelphia: Family Business Publishing Co., 1996. 122 pp., $125.00 softcover.

Family Business magazine has provided its readers with a wealth of information over the past years. Recently, the editors of that quarterly, along with business leaders and experts in the field of family business, have compiled a comprehensive guide to the wide range of issues that stakeholders in family businesses face. The Family Business Management Handbook: The Complete Resource for Building and Managing a Family Owned Company comprises the following sections: Leadership, Business and Family, Compensation, Operations, Advisors and Consultants, Succession, and Resources. Included in these sections are insightful chapters on such topics as leadership, harmony and conflict resolution, sibling teams as co-presidents, compensation, operations, use of advisors, boards of directors and consultants, and, of course, succession.

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The Family Business Management Handbook is geared for families in business and would also benefit new advisors as well as …