Table of Contents for "Keep the Family Baggage Out of the Family Business:  Avoiding the Seven Deadly Sins That Destroy Family Businesses"

Chapter 1: Why You Need to Read This Book

This book concludes with a series of chapters that help strengthen family businesses, giving readers practical recommendations that can be implemented. Chapter 19 highlights the most critical drawback that family businesses encounter when they try to obtain help, and provides a new approach that avoids this drawback. Chapter 20 presents a new framework for evaluating peoples' skills, followed by a chapter that provides guidance on how these peoples' skills can be developed. Chapter 22 tells family businesses how to select the best consultants to help them overcome their problems, followed by a chapter outlining other resources available to family businesses. Chapter 24 discusses a series of legal documents that are often needed by family businesses, and the final chapter encapsulates key pieces of advice into a format that summarizes the main themes of the book.

This chapter presents a series of written documents that can help overcome family business’s bad habit of trying to ignore unpleasant issues and keeping everything informal. While other books about family businesses discuss these legal instruments – pre-nuptial agreements, estate plans and wills, and incorporation – the discussion in this chapter is unique because it emphasizes the use of these instruments within the context of helping to remove the family's baggage from their business.