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Discusses ways of using personality profiles during succession planning in family-owned businesses. Major way of fostering an environment of understanding; Guidelines and insights into the personality of individuals.

Discusses dimensions on which family-owned businesses measure their success. Ways in which the actions of family members affect the business; Proactive and constructive management of issues that arise in the overlapping areas of sub-systems; Getting advisors to collaborate with each other; Development of a succession process; Communication with internal and external customers.

Presents 10 success tips for couple-owned businesses. Need for a common vision of both the business and the relationship; Identification of boundaries for the relationship in work and outside of it; Development of a clear sense of the self.

Discusses how to assist family-owned business successor candidates become as qualified as the incumbent family leader. Vision and mission for family business; Critical knowledge, skills and experiences needed in the leadership position; Career development plan; Open communication lines; Development of complete management team.

Focuses on the importance for family businesses to train their workers. Work force and business profits; Training employees on the whole business system.

Presents tips for family business owners on developing and implementing a working communication system. Acknowledgment of causes of the problem; Mechanisms to be established to accomplish good communication; Management meetings as an important mechanism of communication; Ways to improve communication among managers.

Discusses several strategies for guiding family business owners in helping their employees balance work and family. Effects of inability to balance work and family; Need to understand employees' goals and create solutions together; Issue of misperceptions regarding time off.

Explores ways to accommodate differences in the philosophies of senior and younger generations in family-owned businesses. Differences in work ethics; Potential sources of conflicts; Tips in encouraging the development of an environment of mutual respect between generations.

Discusses the teamwork approach to organizational development in family-owned business. Development of team-building opportunities; Process of building a team.

Offers advice in formulating the mission statement of a company. Importance of mission statements to success in business; Factors to be considered in creating mission statements; Challenges in creating mission statements for family businesses.

Offers family-business owners and operators advice on how to take full advantage of the talents of existing employees. Team learning and creativity efforts; Author Peter M. Senge's five disciplines of a learning organization; Tips on how to start becoming a learning organization.

Emphasizes the importance of planning for family-owned businesses. Importance of sharing information to key stakeholders; Need to determine each individual's goals for the family and for the company; Identification of the direction that stakeholders would want to go as a family.