- Description
 - Specifications
 
Most family business operators fail to plan the orderly operations of their business and their ultimate retirement. Unfortunately there is a lack of foresight into many of the problems which can affect a business. They don't "plan to fail", they just "fail to plan".
This paper - "Family Businesses - Making Them Work" analyses a number of strategies which, if implemented, should play a significant part in ensuring that the family business does indeed work. The paper is presented in eleven pages, comprising:
- Planning
 - Management Procedures
 - Keys To Success
 - Performance Data And Information
 - Job Descriptions
 - Training
 - Professionalising The Family Business
 - Business Needs Steady Management
 - Communication
 - Family Council
 - "Goodwill" In A Family Business
 - "Death Audits"
 - Management Not Satisfactory
 - Employees In Family Businesses
 - Enthusiasm
 - Managing The Business
 - Balance Between Owners And Managers
 - Outside Experience
 - Problems That Can Affect A Business
 - Who's Going To Do It?
 - Problems In Handing Over Control
 - Handing Over Control
 - Family Business Working