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    Business is Business: Reality Checks for Family-Owned Companies
    Business is Business: Reality Checks for Family-Owned Companies
    Business is Business: Reality Checks for Family-Owned Companies
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    Business is Business: Reality Checks for Family-Owned Companies

    By Kathy Kolbe and Amy Bruske

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    Balancing the benefits and burdens of a family-owned business
    Working with family complicates the already daunting task of owning a business, and it’s tough not to take work problems home with you. The best approach is to realize that family is family . . . and business is business. 

    Business is Business: Reality Checks for Family-Owned Companies is a common-sense manual for survival that dispels myths such as the power of teamwork and gender or birth-order differences in ability. Engagingly written, with no-nonsense tips and real-life examples, this defiant treatise will guide you to 

    • Harness your employees’—and your own—inherent strengths
    • Trust your instincts and the people you work with
    • Balance lifelong relationships with fair treatment of nonfamily employees

    Authors Kathy Kolbe and Amy Bruske hone decades of experience helping family businesses thrive—and running their own for more than 30 years—into practical, actionable advice for how to hire family members, how to work with them, and how—when necessary—to fire them. 

    The solutions are not always easy, but understanding the frequent pitfalls of working with family is an investment that could pay back over generations. Business is Business will show you how to find joy while developing a sustainable family-owned company.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGreenleaf Book Group
    Release dateFeb 7, 2017
    ISBN9781626343740
    Business is Business: Reality Checks for Family-Owned Companies
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    Kathy Kolbe

    Kathy Kolbe is an acclaimed theorist, bestselling author, entrepreneur, educator, organizational strategist, consultant and speaker, and is the founder of Kolbe Corp and the Center for Conative Abilities. She is considered to be the world's leading authority on human instincts and conation* and has dedicated her life to helping people to find the freedom to be themselves through understanding and using their conative abilities. The author of multiple research studies, Kolbe has proven her long-held theory that conation is a third faculty of the brain. Additionally, over 750,000 case studies have tested and validated her theories on the inherent, instinctive nature of human conation. Kolbe's work has earned her widespread recognition and awards. She has authored a number of assessment and performance tools used across the world by business, schools, families and individuals, including the Kolbe ATM Index, the only valid and reliable assessment tool for measuring an individual's method of operation (M.O.) within the conative faculty of the brain. Kolbe's motivation for her life's work is rooted in her own cognitive challenges. A severe dyslexic, she discovered early on that instinctive, purposeful action could trump any learning disability. Additionally, in midlife Kolbe survived a near-fatal car accident that left her unable to perform simple cognitive tasks. Rather than focusing on what was lacking, Kolbe relied on deep-rooted conative instincts to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. *Conation is the faculty of the brain that drives you to take purposeful action according to your instincts. Conative abilities are the natural, inherent and unchanging talents that, when acted on, lead to success and well-being as you use your creative energy to solve problems.

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