New York Family Business Center Resource Library

Welcome to the New York Family Business Center Resource Library.  Listed below are audio CD's & books available for our members to borrow at no extra cost.  Please contact us at (315)470-1889 or email Donna Herlihy

The Family Business Leadership Series:

  • Family Business Succession: The Final Test of Greatness, 2nd edition
  • Family Meetings: How to Build a Stronger Family and a Stronger Business, 2nd edition
  • Another Kind of Hero: Preparing Successors for Leadership
  • How Families Work Together
  • Family Business Compensation, 2nd Edition
  • How to Choose and Use Advisors: Getting the Best Professional Family Business Advice
  • Financing Transitions: Managing Capital and Liquidity in the Family Business
  • Family Business Governance: Maximizing Family and Business Potential
  • Preparing Your Family Business for Strategic Change
  • Making Sibling Teams Work: The Next Generation
  • Developing Family Business Policies: Your Guide to the Future
  • Family Business Values: How to Assure a Legacy of Continuity and Success
  • More Than Family: Non-Family Executives in the Family Business
  • Make Change Your Family Business Tradition
  • Family Business Ownership: How To Be An Effective Shareholder
  • Conflict and Communication in the Family Business
  • Letting Go: Preparing Yourself to Relinquish Control of the Family Business
  • Nurturing the Talent to Nurture the Legacy: Career Development in the Family Business
  • Working for a Family Business: A Non-Family Employee's Guide to Success
  • The Family Constitution: Agreements to Secure and Perpetuate Your Family and Your Business
  • Effective Leadership in the Family Business
  • From Siblings to Cousins: Prospering in the Third Generation and Beyond

The Family Business In-Depth Series:

  • A Woman's Place...The Crucial Roles of Women in Family Business by Ann M. Dugan, Sharon P. Krone, Kelly LeCouvie, Ph.D., Jennifer M. Pendergast, Ph.D., Denise H.
  • Kenyon-Rouvinez, Ph.D. and Amy M. Schuman
  • Creating Effective Boards for Private Enterprises: Meeting the Challenges of Continuity and Competition by John L. Ward, Ph.D.
  • Family Business by the Numbers by Norbert E. Schwarz
  • Family Business Key Issues by Denise Kenyon-Rouvinez, Ph.D. and John L. Ward, Ph.D.
  • Family Business Sourcebook, 3rd edition edited by Craig E. Aronoff, Ph.D., Joseph H.
  • Astrachan, Ph.D. and John L. Ward, Ph.D.
  • Healthy Growth for the Family Business by Jennifer M. Pendergast, Ph.D.
  • Keeping the Family Business Healthy: How to Plan for Continuing Growth, Profitability and Family Leadership by John L. Ward, Ph.D.
  • Perpetuating the Family Business by John L. Ward, Ph.D.
  • Strategic Planning for the Family Business by Randel Carlock and John L. Ward, Ph.D.
  • Who, Me? Family Business Succession. A Practical Guide for the Next Generation by Denise Kenyon-Rouvinez and Gabs
  • Why Me? Wealth: Creating, Receiving and Passing It On by Denise Kenyon-Rouvinez, Thierry Lombard, Matthiew Ricard, John L. Ward, Ph.D. and Gabs
  • Why Others? Philanthropy as Opportunity by Etienne Eichenberger, Karin Jestin, Thierry Lombard, Maurice Machenbaum, Matthieu Ricard, John L. Ward and Gabs

 

Audio Conference CD’s 

  • A Non-Family Employee's Guide to Success in Working for a Family Business CD
  • Career Development in the Family Business CD
  • Compensation in the Family Business CD
  • Conflict and Communication in the Family Business CD
  • Coping with Massive Change CD
  • Creating a Board of Directors CD
  • Developing Family Business Policies CD
  • Effective Ownership CD
  • Estate Plan Syndrome: Why Smart People Fail to Plan CD
  • Fair Compensation in the Family Business CD
  • Family Education for Business-Owning Families: Strengthening Bonds by Learning Together CD
  • Family Meetings: Building Dynamics for Success CD
  • Family Meetings: Getting the Next Generation Involved CD
  • From Siblings to Cousins: The Last Major Transition CD
  • Governance Councils CD
  • Healthy Growth and Strategic Planning for the Family Business CD
  • How to Build Shareholder Competence CD
  • In-laws in the Family Business CD
  • Letting Go: Preparing Yourself to Relinquish Control of the Family Business CD
  • Making Wealth a Positive Tool CD
  • Managing a Board of Directors CD
  • Maximizing the Effectiveness of Your Board CD

Book of the Month


John L. Ward, Perpetuating the Family Business:


50 Lessons Learned from Long-Lasting, Successful Families in Business. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 256 pp. ISBN 1-4039-3397-9, 25 [pounds sterling] (hbk).

Perpetuating the Family Business is John Ward's latest book on establishing and maintaining effective family businesses. Ward is a prolific author in this area of entrepreneurship. He has authored and co-authored several books including Keeping the Family Business Healthy, Creating Effective Boards for Private Enterprises, and with Randel Carlock, Strategic Planning for the Family Business. Ward has also produced numerous articles and monographs, many dealing with various aspects of owning and operating a family business. As he states in the beginning of this last book, his expertise has grown out of working with and researching family businesses over the last 25 years.


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