Here are some of our favorite family business books, websites, and podcasts.
Resources
For over 30 years, family business leaders and owners have relied on Family Business to improve their family dynamics and their business.
Family Business is published by MLR Media. Through digital platforms, magazines, and events, MLR Media provides public and private company directors, leaders and owners of multigenerational family businesses and C-suite executives with the knowledge and skills to be successful in their roles.
Family Business Magazine
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Census estimates that about 90 percent of American businesses can be defined as a family business, which includes approximately 35% of Fortune 500 firms. Our goal at FamilyBusiness.org is to help these firms thrive by providing a free online resource that offers them the best thinking on how to launch, manage and grow their family business, all in one place. We aim to teach and inspire current and future family business owners, students in entrepreneurship programs, and professors and advisers who guide them.
FamilyBusiness.org
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Myths and Mortals: Family Business Leadership and Succession Planning
Provides insight and strategies for successors of family businesses. Successors often find themselves in the shadow of their parents making it difficult to establish credibility in the family business and tap into their own strengths. This book intends to help readers overcome the obstacles successors commonly face, win over those still loyal to their former leader, and develop their own leadership style to build their own credibility.
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Harvard Business Review
Family Business Handbook
Though "family business" may sound like it refers only to mom-and-pop shops, businesses owned by families are among the most significant and numerous in the world. But surprisingly few resources exist to help navigate the unique challenges you face when you share the executive suite, financial statements, and holidays. In this book, you'll find a new perspective on what makes family businesses succeed and fail, a framework to help you make good decisions together, and more.
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In "Imaginable", Jane McGonigal draws on the latest scientific research in psychology and neuroscience to show us how to train our minds to think the unthinkable and imagine the unimaginable. This book intends to help readers build a collective imagination to dive into the future and envision, in surprising detail, what our lives will look like ten years from now. Further, it will help develop the courage and vision to solve problems creatively.
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Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything
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A world in flux calls for a new mindset, one that treats constant change and uncertainty as a feature, not a bug. "Flux" helps readers open this mindset - a flux mindset - and develop eight "flux superpowers" that flip conventional ideas about leadership, success, and well-being on their heads. They empower people to see change in new ways, craft new responses, and ultimately reshape their relationship to change from the inside out.
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Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change
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An award-winning podcast guiding entrepreneurs from transition to transaction hosted by Laurie Barkman, The Business Transition Sherpa.
Succession Stories with Laurie Barkman
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A new guest every episode talks about everything from navigating family business transitions, business growth strategies, family conflict, leadership, and more.
The Family Biz Show with Michael Palumbos
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In each episode of GENeration EXcellence, Jamie talks with other leaders of unique generational family businesses about their past, present, and future.
