Synopses & Reviews
Leading a family business can be complex, and every business owner needs help from time to time—but choosing the right advice can make or break the business. In How to Choose and Use Advisors, Authors Aronoff and Ward establish benchmarks for excellent advisory services and they show businesses owners how to benefit from advice ranging from legal and financial to executive search and organizational development.
Review
“There is little more important to a family firm than selecting an advisor who will quickly earn the trust and confidence of family members. The process is fraught with danger. In How to Choose and Use Advisors: Getting the Best Professional Family Business Advice, it is refreshing to see such a thoughtful and incisive treatment of this complex issue. Ward and Aronoff have masterfully succeeded.” —John R. Berry, Hendrick & Struggles, Managing Partner, Global Family Business Practice, Chicago, IL
“I found How to Choose and Use Advisors: Getting the Best Professional Family Business Advice well organized, well written, insightful, and to the point. It is an excellent resource for family business owners. This is a must for those who are in the business of providing advice to family businesses.” —Howard Neiman, CPA, Partner, Babush, Neiman, Kornman & Johnson, LLP Certified Public Accountants, Atlanta, GA
Synopsis
In How to Choose and Use Advisors, authors Aronoff and Ward establish benchmarks for excellent advisory services and they show business owners how to benefit from advice ranging from legal and financial to executive search and organizational development.
Synopsis
Getting the best from business advisors
About the Author
Craig E. Aronoff is Co-founder, Principal, and Chairman of the Board, of The Family Business Consulting Group, Inc. He is a leading consultant, speaker, writer, and educator in the family business field. Aronoff is perhaps the most prolific writer in the family business field. As the founder of the Cox Family Enterprise Center and current Professor Emeritus at Kennesaw State University in Marietta, GA, Aronoff invented and implemented the membership-based, professional-service-provider sponsored Family Business Forum, which has served as a model of family business education universities world-wide. He has held the Dinos Eminent Scholar Distinguished Chair of Private Enterprise and was a professor of management in Kennesaw State's Coles College of Business. The Aronoff Professorship of Family Business at Kennesaw State University was named in his honor.
John L. Ward is Co-founder of the Family Business Consulting Group Inc. He is Clinical Professor at the Kellogg School of Management and teaches strategic management, business leadership and family enterprise continuity. Ward is the author or co-author of several leading texts on family business, Keeping the Family Business Healthy, Creating Effective Boards for Private Enterprises, Strategic Planning for the Family Business, Perpetuating the Family Business, Unconventional Wisdom and Family Business Key Issues. He is also an author of a collection known as The Family Business Leadership Series, each focusing on specific issues family businesses face.
Table of Contents
Preface * I. The Value of Good Advice * II. Why So Few Business Owners Get and Accept Good Advice * III. Benchmarks in Advisory Service: What is the Best You Can Expect? * IV. Red Flags: Warning Signals in Advisory Relationships * V. Finding and Choosing and Advisor * VI. Managing and Evaluating Advisors * VII. Summary * Appendix * Index