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Consulting to Family Businesses: Contracting, Assessment, and Implementation

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ISBN: 978-0-787-96249-4

September 2002

Pfeiffer

288 pages

Description
Working with family businesses differs in many significant ways from consulting with non-family firms. How can you grow your consulting practice and develop the skills needed to work successfully with family businesses?

Jane Hilburt-Davis and W. Gibb Dyer— two of the country's foremost experts in the field of family business— offer in one comprehensive volume a systematic approach for developing the skills and competencies you need to consult with these unique systems. This practical, hands-on resource shows you how to manage each stage of the consulting process— from the first contact to the last— and reveals how to plan strategically and deal with the complex relationship issues that are commonplace in family businesses.

About the Author
Jane Hilburt-Davis is a founding principal of Key Resources, aconsulting group firm that specialized in working with family andclosely-held businesses. Recognized as a leader in the field offamily businesses, she also co-founded the Cambridge Center forCreative Enterprise, an award-winning training and researchinstitute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

W. Gibb Dyer is the O. Leslie Stone Professor of Entrepreneurshipin the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University.Dyer is a recognized authority on family business andentrepreneurship. He has been featured in numerous publicationsincluding The Wall Street Journal, Inc., The New York Times, andNation's Business.