Family firms are to be found in every sector of commercial activity, and their special strengths mean that they flourish best where their advantages can be fully exploited. Family Businesses: The Essentials is a comprehensive guide to every aspect of managing a family-owned firm, from day-to-day issues to long-term planning for future generations. This new and completely revised version of the author's previous Guide to the Family Business (Kogan Page; last edition 1999) provides an accessible introduction to newcomers, and also offers knowledgeable business people fresh insight and solutions to the special problems they face. All family businesses are different, but it is critical for each to define its shared family values, vision and purpose. Family Businesses: The Essentials shows how to achieve this, and how to allow each generation to reinterpret and revitalise that vision. Fresh, updated and more sharply focused, packed with real-life case studies, and drawing on the author's extensive research into thousands of family businesses, this is essential guidance for every stage of a family business's development.

家族企业遍布于商业活动的各个领域，它们的特殊优势意味着，在充分利用自身优势的地方，它们最为繁荣。家族企业：《要点》是管理家族企业各个方面的综合指南，从日常事务到子孙后代的长期规划。作者先前的《家族企业指南》（Kogan Page；上一版，1999年）的新修订版为新来者提供了易懂的介绍，也为知识渊博的商界人士提供了新的见解和解决他们面临的特殊问题的方法。所有家族企业都是不同的，但每个家族企业都必须确定其共同的家族价值观、愿景和目标。《家族企业：要点》展示了如何实现这一目标，以及如何让每一代人重新诠释和振兴这一愿景。新的、更新的和更敏锐的关注，包含了现实生活中的案例研究，并借鉴了作者对数千家家族企业的广泛研究，这对于家族企业发展的每个阶段都是至关重要的指导。