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LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

FORTHCOMING FORTHCOMING NEW

How Leaders Improve Motivation Leading a

A Playbook for Leaders The Manager’s Key to Family Business
Who Want to Get Closing the Best Practices for Long-
Better Now Commitment Gap Term Stewardship

JOHN GATES, PHD, MARVIN R. GOTTLIEB JUSTIN B. CRAIG, PHD,
JEFF GRADDY, PHD, AND AND KEN MOORES, PHD
SACHA LINDEKENS, PHD

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This book zeros in on key factors that Based on insights from executives across
Written by a team of highly experienced identify areas of potential untapped the globe, this planning guide captures
and successful executive leadership productivity through a diagnostic and the unique challenges faced by leaders
consultants, this book offers 10 data- relationship-building process and of a family business and presents an
driven insights regarding leadership provides behaviors and tools that approach to help these operations
effectiveness, accompanied by managers can employ to build a high- survive and thrive across generations.
practical and easy-to-implement performing team.
recommendations that directly serve the FEATURES FEATURES
development of leadership ability. • Includes insights from leaders of
• Clearly identifies interpersonal family businesses from all over the
FEATURES dynamics as the major factor for world
• Supplies strategies for enhancing reducing the “commitment gap” • Describes important characteristics
one’s ripeness for a leadership and increasing job satisfaction and for leading family and business
development opportunity productivity systems successfully
• Utilizes “real life” scenarios to
demonstrate how the supplied • Features case vignettes showcasing
JOHN GATES, PhD, is a partner with blueprints and strategies enable the complex inner workings of family
Avion Consulting, a management managers to internalize and and business stewardship
consulting firm specializing in experiment to impact their own • Compares the homogeneity evident
leadership, team, and organizational motivational issues in non-family enterprises versus the
development.
heterogeneity of family enterprises
JEFF GRADDY, PhD, is a partner with
Avion Consulting who is passionate MARVIN R. GOTTLIEB, PhD, is
about helping leaders get the best out president of The Communication JUSTIN B. CRAIG, PhD, is clinical
of themselves and their people. Project, Inc., a consulting firm. He has professor of family enterprise at the
more than 25 years of experience as a Kellogg School of Management.
SACHA LINDEKENS, PhD, is a partner management consultant, instructional
with Avion Consulting who specializes designer, and facilitator. KEN MOORES, PhD, DBus, is emeritus
in executive coaching and designing professor and founding director of the
and delivering leadership development Australian Centre for Family Business at
programs for industry-leading organizations. Bond University, Australia.
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