
Unconventional Wisdom
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Ulrich Steger holds the Alcan Chair of EnvironmentalManagement at IMD, is Director of its research project on CorporateSustainability Management, and leads IMD's Global CorporateGovernance Research Initiative.
Joachim Schwass is Professor of Family Business andDirector of the IMD-Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie FamilyBusiness Center. He teaches Family Business and EntrepreneurialManagement, is Program Director of the St.Moritz FamilyBusiness Seminar, and directs the Annual IMD DistinguishedFamily Business Award.
Jeannie Kahwajy is a professor of Organizational Behaviorat IMD - International Institute for Management Development. Priorto joining IMD she worked as a coach, consultant, seminarleader and speaker.
George Kohlrieser, a clinical and organizationalpsychologist, is Professor of Organizational Behavior at IMD,Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology, Wright StateUniversity, Ohio, USA, an adjunct faculty member ofFielding Institute San Francisco, USA, and an adjunctfaculty member of Zagreb University, Croatia.
Content
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Chapter 1. The Growth Dilemma in Family-Owned Firms (PeterLorange).
Chapter 2. Unconventional Strategy: Why Family FirmsOutperform (John L. Ward).
Chapter 3. Strategic Planning - It Starts with theFamily (John L. Ward).
Chapter 4. How Family Business Culture is Different(Colleen Lief and Daniel Denison).
Chapter 5. Understanding the Successor's Challenges(Joachim Schwass).
Chapter 6. An Effective Successor Development Strategy(Joachim Schwass).
Chapter 7. Resolving Conflict in Family Businesses:Don't Be a Hostage to Family Harmony (George Kohlrieser).
Chapter 8. Effective Family Communications: It's NotWhat's Said That's Important, But What's Heard(Jean L. Kahwajy).
Chapter 9. The Family Constitution: It's the ProcessThat Counts, Not the Content (John L. Ward).
Chapter 10. Good News for Family Firms: You Don'tNeed to Worry about the New Rules in Corporate Governance.But... (Ulrich Steger).
Chapter 11. The Value of Hands-On Ownership (John L.Ward).
Chapter 12. Counterintuitive Insights (Colleen Lief andJohn L. Ward).
Index.
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