L. Taylor

The Business of Family (eBook, PDF)

How to Stay Rich for Generations

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Business of Family teaches readers how to write their own family business plan using time-tested strategies from the corporate world to provide a practical, user-friendly method that ensures their family knows where it's been, where it's headed, and how it's going to get there.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137487872
• Artikelnr.: 43589553

Autorenporträt

Linda Davis Taylor is the CEO and Chairman of Clifford Swan Investment Counsel in Pasadena, California. A participant in a fourth generation family business, Linda is a frequent speaker on wealth transition, family governance, and philanthropy. In addition to her investment counsel career, she has had over twenty-five years experience in senior leadership positions at Emory University, Claremont McKenna College, Amherst College, and Scripps College. Linda has served as a trustee for numerous educational and non-profit organizations and is a co-founder of a private foundation. She and her husband are the parents of two adult daughters.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Philip V. Swan Acknowledgements Introduction First Things First 1. Strategy: A Blueprint for Your Family 2. Mission: Keeping Your Family on Track 3. Vision and Values: Put Family Members and Principles First Getting Your Family On Board 4. Forging Family Partnerships 5. Setting Goals and Celebrating Milestones 6. Every Family Member Matters: Roles, Responsibilities, and Making Decisions Family Investing Is More Sense than Dollars 7. Family I.Q.: Education and Training 8. Family E.Q.: Getting Along to Get Ahead 9. Family Audit: Guidance and Mentoring Staying On Track 10. Financial Sustainability: Working with Your Money, Not against It 11. Family Sustainability: Risk and Resilience Long-Term Planning 12. Family Dividends: Gratitude and Legacy 13. Family R&D: Preparing the Next Generation 14. The Future of Your Family: No Success without Succession

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Foreword by Philip V. Swan Acknowledgements Introduction First Things First 1. Strategy: A Blueprint for Your Family 2. Mission: Keeping Your Family on Track 3. Vision and Values: Put Family Members and Principles First Getting Your Family On Board 4. Forging Family Partnerships 5. Setting Goals and Celebrating Milestones 6. Every Family Member Matters: Roles, Responsibilities, and Making Decisions Family Investing Is More Sense than Dollars 7. Family I.Q.: Education and Training 8. Family E.Q.: Getting Along to Get Ahead 9. Family Audit: Guidance and Mentoring Staying On Track 10. Financial Sustainability: Working with Your Money, Not against It 11. Family Sustainability: Risk and Resilience Long-Term Planning 12. Family Dividends: Gratitude and Legacy 13. Family R&D: Preparing the Next Generation 14. The Future of Your Family: No Success without Succession

Rezensionen

'Linda Davis Taylor has written a very thoughtful, practical book on family wealth. Many families would benefit from reading and sharing it.' Kathryn A. Hall, CEO and co-CIO of Hall Capital Partners LLC

'The Business of Family is destined to become the standard work in the realm of family wealth management. Well-written, clear, and user friendly, this helpful guide will direct interested individuals upon the right course to best financially manage their most precious asset: their family.' Laura Skandera Trombley, President of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

'Linda elegantly tackles two of the most emotional subjects in the world family and money. The Business of Family is a valuable resource filled with engaging stories and actionable strategies that can help families find common ground and sustain their wealth for generations to come.' Hannah Shaw Grove, Founder of Private Wealth magazine and author of The Family Office: Advising the Financial Elite

'Practical, thoughtful advice for families interested in a purposeful approach for maintaining and growing wealth. Filled with memorable anecdotes and useful references, the book identifies behavioral biases that can have significant, negative impacts on relationships and on wealth. The book is a model of how to think systematically about the interaction of business and family.' Janet Kiholm Smith, Von Tobel Professor of Economics, Claremont McKenna College
'There is nothing like being in a family business. Values are intertwined with commerce on a daily basis. As Linda Davis Taylor shows, whether you are in a large corporation or small Mom and Pop, keeping those values close is critical to success.' Alexandra Lebenthal, CEO, Lebenthal Holdings

'The thoughtful guidance provided in The Business of Family is nothing short of indispensable for those who desire to successfully transition their wealth and, as importantly, their values to children and grandchildren. A very important tool for professionals wanting to offer practical and meaningful advice to the families they serve.' Richard H. Patterson, Jr., CEO, San Pasqual Fiduciary Trust Company