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Family Business Management provides an accessible overview of the core aspects of family business, with an international, practice-based perspective. Structured in four parts, the book covers key topics such as family firm goals, conflict management, human resources, strategy, financial management, family and business governance, and succession planning. A wide variety of cases and examples are used throughout the book to highlight cultural and institutional differences between family businesses in contrasting contexts.

Imagine if you lived without the fear of failure, without the fear of not measuring up. If you no longer felt the need to stifle your thoughts and swallow what you really want to say in order to please and appease others. If you could stop berating yourself mercilessly for human mistakes, let go of the guilt and the strangling pressure to be perfect, and just breathe. What if, in every decision you faced, you made the brave choice or took the bolder path. Would you be happier? Would you impact the world in the ways you dream you can? I believe the answer to both is yes.

Don't Bring It to Work explores what happens when patterns originally created to cope with family conflicts are unleashed in the workplace? This groundbreaking book draws on the success of Sylvia Lafair's PatternAware program Total Leadership Connections. Throughout the book she shows how to break the cycle of pattern repetition and offers the tools that can turn unhealthy family baggage into creative energy that will foster better workplace associations and career success.

Indiana Jones meets Lara Croft in a hot, desperate treasure hunt... Dr. Cat Livingstone works for the British Museum, and she’s frustrated as hell when the mysterious man she knows only as the Silver Fox snatches yet another artifact from under her nose. Determined to steal the priceless necklace back, she tracks him to the Swedish Ice Hotel, but she doesn’t bank on him being the most gorgeous guy she’s ever laid eyes on. Dr. Heath Roberts has no idea the hot blonde in the ice-cold Absolut Icebar is his nemesis, the Black Cat. In the mood for a one-night stand, he asks her back to his...

It has been said that life is 10 percent about what happens to you and 90 percent about how you react to it. Brenda Fontaine is a living example of that. She tells us the story in her new book, The Limitless Real Estate Leader. Raised by an alcoholic mother and an overachieving father, Fontaine was able to extract important lessons from her upbringing. She has applied them both to her business career and to her personal life. The Limitless Real Estate Leader is a heartwarming motivational business book.

Bailey and Jenna fall in love. They create a home and befriend their neighbour, a thirty-two-year-old junkie named Kylie. When Kylie falls pregnant, Bailey and Jenna become de-facto parents to a perfect baby boy. Then Bailey’s corporate career takes off, and he too becomes an addict – his drug of choice, corporate power. Will Bailey sell out his principles and let down those he loves for one more step up the corporate ladder? The Law of Happiness and Divorce is a black comedy about life and death – but mostly death.

When Dale Partridge's outwardly perfect life, marriage, and family were crumbling on the inside, he began questioning if culture's definition of success was something to seek after or to be saved from. What he found challenged everything he believed about "the good life" and equipped him to rebuild an even better life based on God's timeless design. Filled with scripture and practical application, Saved from Success is the book millions of burned-out and bedraggled Christians have been waiting for.

It’s been zero days since I realized I’m in love with Leander Knight. Lee, or Knightley as everyone calls him, is my brother’s best mate, and he’s always treated me like his kid sister. Okay, so he might not put cockroaches in my lunchbox and lizards down my neck anymore, but even though we work together every day at Hartfield Wildlife Hospital, he’s never seemed interested in me in that way. And then something changed. Maybe it was when I walked past him in my bikini, and he lost the power of speech. Or perhaps it was when I found out that an old girlfriend nicknamed him Twice ...

Embrace these skills to overcome fear of failure and navigate adulthood with confidence. This book is a must-listen for teens and young adults seeking to carve a path to success and well-being, including those with special needs.

The Future Leader is a business fable that serves as a practical resource, offering guidance to prepare for leadership while navigating the unique challenges of family dynamics and business responsibilities. Follow a candid dialogue between Jordan, a new successor, and Kelly, a family friend who has years of firsthand experience in the trials of succession.

We worry putting our family first means we'll be forced to abandon our careers. We're afraid if we pause our careers, we'll be forever off track. This thinking is outdated - forget what you've heard about how pauses are career limiting, about how those who pause lack ambition, or that if you do pause you won't be able to reenter the paid workforce. That's a flawed reality, one that doesn't reflect the truth of the careers of some of the most successful women in this country. Author Lisen Stromberg knows this success firsthand.

Stop juggling; start managing everything you need to do at home and at work. It used to be simple: Stay late, turn in flawless work, catch up on sleep later. You needed that mindset to get where you are, but that's not going to cut it anymore. You need to make different choices to succeed at work, as a parent, and as a family member. Getting It All Done can't teach you how to be in two places at once, but it provides you with expert advice as you manage the challenge of succeeding at work while making sure your family is housed, fed, healthy, safe, and educated.

This program will help you and your family to prioritize your family in today's turbulent world; build a happier and more effective family; create more meaningful family relationships; unite around a common purpose, vision, and mission; enjoy more quality and quantity family time together; and build renewing and lasting family traditions.

Many farm folks work hard at producing great crops and caring for livestock, but when it comes to communicating their deepest desires for the future of the farm, they get stuck. Building Your Farm Legacy: Tools to Empower Family is a useful toolbox created by a farm woman, partner, and mother to a successor.

It’s no great secret that women have trouble maintaining the picture-perfect balance the world tells us we should. That’s where the Fairy God Doctor comes in. The Fairy God Doctor’s Guide to a Good Life: A Prescription for the Working Woman offers essential guidance on how to prioritize and avoid maternal fatigue while also juggling the balls that modern life requires. This revolutionary guide, ideal for successful women, transforms how to approach self-care activities for women in today's demanding world.

David C. Bentall shares family business insights gleaned from 20 years of working with the Bentall Group and Dominion Construction. Skillfully marrying his own experience with bet practices in the field, he offers solutions to the distinct challenges faced by all families in business. Practical examples are also included from the following prominent entrepreneurial business families from across North America.

Do you feel stuck in your current career? Have your career aspirations changed since becoming a parent? Are you wondering if you can juggle being a full- time parent and full-time student? 50 Things to Know About Going Back to School by author, Renee Jones, offers an approach to finding academic success while raising children. I am here to tell you that you can in fact, be present for your ambitions and your parental obligations. You'll discover helpful strategies that allowed me to successfully complete my second graduate program while raising four small children.

Her perfect date? Veronica Grant needs a man to take to her cousin’s wedding in order to keep her matchmaking mother at bay. A man like Fergus Kavanagh. He’s perfect—rich, charming and sexy. If he accompanies Veronica, her mother won’t mention marriage for weeks! Luckily, Fergus has matchmaking relatives of his own he wants to avoid, so he proposes a pact: he will be Veronica’s pretend lover if she becomes his! Now he just needs to remember it’s all an act…even though their sizzling chemistry feels oh-so-real!

Beyond the Rut is a fascinating motivational book that will inspire you to re-examine your life. This book lays out some of the manageable steps that you can follow in creating a more fulfilling personal and professional life.

As a single parent, your life is different from the other working parents around you. With the pressure to perform well at work and no partner to assist with tasks at home, you likely find yourself with many responsibilities but little support. It's a heavy weight to bear. Doing It All as a Solo Parent helps you to lighten the load. Drawing on the expertise from experts and parents alike, it provides practical tips and advice catered to your unique challenges as a solo parent.