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 final chapter encapsulates key pieces of advice into a format that summarizes the main themes of the book. The "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" presented in this final chapter have been created to help family businesses overcome the "Seven Deadly Sins."