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Companies that are owned and run by families need to develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills just like any other company, but family firms face obstacles that hire and fire companies don't. Family dynamics rarely perfectly mirror the best practices in the latest Harvard Business Review. So what factors in the family and work environments enable the creation of leaders who share the entrepreneurial fire of the founders? Allan Cohen and Pramodita Sharma, scholars with deep professional and personal roots in family businesses, draw on extensive global research to reveal the secrets of enterprising families, using examples of both firms that flourished and those that failed. Cohen and Sharma offer profoundly practical advice that will ensure family businesses thrive into the next century.

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Allan R. Cohen is the Edward A. Madden Distinguished Professor of Global Leadership at Babson College. He spent seven years as Babson College's chief academic officer, leading major curriculum and organizational changes. He has an MBA and a DBA from Harvard. Pramodita Sharma is the Sanders Chair & Professor of Family Business at the University of Vermont and a visiting professor for Kellogg School of Management. She has a PhD from the University of Calgary. Dr. Pramodita Sharma's research on succession processes, governance, innovation, next-generation commitment, and entrepreneurial leadership in family enterprises has been honored with several international awards. She is amongst the most frequently cited scholars in family business About the Authors 223 studies. In addition to nine coauthored books, she has published over fifty scholarly articles and book chapters on family business studies. Tiffany Williams is an Audible approved narrator who has been narrating audiobooks since 2013. Tiffany graduated from the University of North Texas with a Bachelor's in Theatre with an emphasis on acting and directing, plus a minor in psychology - so watch out.

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