Rob Lachenauer

Josh Baron

The one book you need to navigate the complex decisions and critical relationships necessary to create and sustain a healthy family business--and business family. Though "family business" may sound like it refers only to mom-and-pop shops, businesses owned by families are among the most significant and numerous in the world. But surprisingly few resources exist to help navigate the unique challenges you face when you share the executive suite, tax returns, and holidays. How do you make the right decisions, critical to the long-term survival of any business, with the added challenge of having to do so within the context of a family? This comprehensive handbook brings you sophisticated guidance and practical advice from family business experts Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer. Based on their decades-long experience working closely with a wide range of family businesses around the world, the authors present proven methods and approaches. In the HBR Family Business Handbook you'll find: A new perspective on what makes family businesses succeed and fail A framework to help you address the myriad decisions facing your family business--including how to make good decisions together Step-by-step guidance to help you understand what type of family business you own, define success on your own terms, communicate effectively, manage conflict, prepare for changes within your business family, and transition to the next generation Key questions about wealth, unique to family businesses, that you can't afford not to ask yourself--and your family Exercises and assessments to help you determine where you are--and where you want to go Stories of real families and real companies, from Radio Flyer to Sierra Nevada Brewing Company The HBR Family Business Handbook addresses these issues and more. Keep this guide with you to help you build, grow, and sustain your family business--and your business family--for years, and generations, to come. HBR Handbooks provide ambitious professionals with the frameworks, advice, and tools they need to excel in their careers. With step-by-step guidance, time-honed best practices, real-life stories, and concise explanations of research published in Harvard Business Review, each comprehensive volume helps you to stand out from the pack--whatever your role.

How to Build and Sustain a Successful, Enduring Enterprise

The Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook

George Stalk 

John Butman 

تتعثر شركات كبيرة عندما تخسرها. تتحطم شركة رائدة عندما يلاحظ منافس أنها لا تمتلكها. تغلق شركة ناشئة أبوابها إذا لم تستطع تحقيقها. إذا كنت تعتقد «أنها» مجرد أفضلية تنافسية، فإنك تحكم على شركتك بالفشل. يتوقع خبيرا الإستراتيجية جورج ستاك وروب لاشينور أنه في الأعوام العشرة اللاحقة ستصبح المنافسة شديدة جداً ولن تكون الانتصارات الهامشية والأفضليات التي يتم تحقيقها على المدى القصير كافية لإبقاء الشركات مزدهرة. سيتطلب الفوز تنفيذ إستراتيجية لا تلين وتركز على تحويل الأفضلية التنافسية إلى أفضلية حاسمة, وتعمل على تحييد، وتهميش ومعاقبة الخصوم. يأخذ لاعب التسويق المديرين بعيداً داخل عالم المنافسة -عالم يلتزم فيه اللاعبون بحماس الفوزَ ويعملون دون كلل أو ملل لتعزيز مواقعهم التنافسية، وإنشاء دورة فاعلة تضعهم بعيداً عن متناول أيدي المنافسين. بالاستفادة من خمسة وعشرين عاماً من الخبرة في تقديم النصائح والإرشادات لعدد كبير من الشركات، يكشف ستاك ولاشينور كيف يحقق لاعبو التسويق الجيدون انتصارات حاسمة -دون خرق القانون أو تعريض التزاماتهم نحو العملاء والمسهمين للخطر. غالباً ما تلعب تلك الشركات بقوة، ولا تعتذر لقيامها بذلك. بالرغم من ذلك فإنها تمتلك أيضاً مهارة استثنائية في الجانب «الآخر» من الإدارة يتمثل في حشد الطاقات وبناء ثقافة عبر تركيز يشبه شعاع الليزر على عدّة قضايا ينبغي النجاح بها. بالاستفادة من قصص غنية بالتفاصيل من عدّة صناعات، يوجز لاعب التسويق سبع إستراتيجيات تسويق تقليدية: إطلاق قوة ساحقة، استغلال ظواهر غير مألوفة، تهديد مصادر أرباح المنافسين الرئيسة، أخذ الفكرة وتبنّيها، دفع المنافسين إلى التراجع، تغيير الوضع القائم، الاندماج والاستحواذ. ويكشف المؤلفان عمن يستعمل إستراتيجيات التسويق تلك، وتحت أي ظروف تصبح الإستراتيجية أكثر فاعلية، وطريقة تنسيق الهجوم. العبيكان للنشر

Hardball: Are You Playing to Play or Playing to Win

لاعب التسويق: هل تلعب للمتعة أم للفوز؟

Navigate the complex decisions and critical relationships necessary to create and sustain a healthy family business—and business family. Though "family business" may sound like it refers only to mom-and-pop shops, businesses owned by families are among the most significant and numerous in the world. But surprisingly few resources exist to help navigate the unique challenges you face when you share the executive suite, financial statements, and holidays. How do you make the right decisions, critical to the long-term survival of any business, with the added challenge of having to do so within the context of a family? The HBR Family Business Handbook brings you sophisticated guidance and practical advice from family business experts Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer. Drawing on their decades-long experience working closely with a wide range of family businesses of all sizes around the world, the authors present proven methods and approaches for communicating effectively, managing conflict, building the right governance structures, and more. In the HBR Family Business Handbook you'll find: A new perspective on what makes family businesses succeed and fail A framework to help you make good decisions together Step-by-step guidance on managing change within your business family Key questions about wealth, unique to family businesses, that you can't afford to ignore Assessments to help you determine where you are—and where you want to go Stories of real companies, from Marchesi Antinori to Radio Flyer Chapter summaries you can use to reinforce what you've learned Keep this comprehensive guide with you to help you build, grow, and position your family business to thrive across generations. HBR Handbooks provide ambitious professionals with the frameworks, advice, and tools they need to excel in their careers. With step-by-step guidance, time-honed best practices, and real-life stories, each comprehensive volume helps you to stand out from the pack—whatever your role.

Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook

John Butman

George Stalk

Great companies stumble and fall when they lose it. Highfliers crash when a competitor notices they don't have it. Start-ups shut down if they can't develop it. "It" is a strategy so powerful and an execution-driven mindset so relentless that companies use it to gain more than just competitive advantage--they achieve an industry dominance that is virtually unassailable and that competitors often try to explain away as unfair. In their "hardball manifesto," authors George Stalk and Rob Lachenauer of the leading strategy consulting firm The Boston Consulting Group show how hardball competitors can build or maintain an enviable competitive edge by pursuing one or more of the classic "hardball strategies": unleash massive and overwhelming force, exploit anomalies, devastate profit sanctuaries, raise competitors' costs, and break compromises. Based on 25 years of experience advising and observing a range of companies, the authors argue that hardball competitors can gain extreme competitive advantage--neutralizing, marginalizing, or even destroying competitors--without violating their contracts with customers or employees and without breaking the rules. A clear-eyed paean to the timeless strategies that have driven the world's winning companies, Hardball Strategy redefines and reinterprets the meaning of competition for a new generation of business players. George Stalk and Rob Lachenauer are directors of The Boston Consulting Group. Stalk is the author of Competing Against Time, the classic work on time-based competition.

Rob Lachenauer

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