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unconventional wisdom: counterintuitive insights for family business success
prof john l ward
Synopsis "unconventional wisdom: counterintuitive insights for family business success"
imds leading the family business is the most popular and longest continuing family business executive education course in the world. through the years imd have learned many new insights on how family firms work and they have translated those insights into frameworks and models. our fundamental perspective has evolved into a unifying theme of distinction: family firms and the families that own them succeed by pursuing unconventional strategies and thinking. family business ownership structure leads to a different governance system that encourages different strategies that come from a different organizational culture. from the family point of view, different perspectives on how to envision succession and the successors role, plus how to interact with other family members, are evident.this book is about how to harness the power potential of the family controlled business and of the leadership in the family. not about struggling with the uncontrollable, but about what can be done to maximize what can be controlled. this means considering how the strategic and cultural uniqueness of a family business can be leveraged. it is also about developing interpersonal skills that are so different and essential when working with relatives, rather than within traditional authority relationships.the unique characteristics of this book are:· no book includes both the family relations perspective and the business perspective. in fact, the focus on conflict and communications is distinct.· the book has a theory that integrates each key dimension of family business performance on what is controllable what can be done not on factors beyond ones control. the book is unusually proactive, not just providing understanding. · each topic is explored as an unorthodox problem that has an unconventional solution by applying counterintuitive thinking.· the book comes from the faculty of the best known family business course in the world. while most of the authors are american, some are european.the book reports fresh research from imds new lombard-odier family business research centre.
