By Aron Pervin...

The Accidental Partnership^® Series

• Enterprise Family Organization -
• High Performance Enterprise Family Teams -
• Managing the Relationships that Bind or Bond -
• Power and Resources: Managing Owner Risk, Legacy and Value -
• Professionalizing the Entrepreneurial Family Business -

Other Publications

• A Conversation with Henry Mintzberg, Family Business Review – PDF Version
• STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Planners) Business Families (book):
  Chapter: Building a Family Business Advisory Team -
  Chapter: Philanthropy and Private Foundation Readiness -
• STEP Family Office (book) - Chapter: Next Generation Wealth and the Future of the World -
• STEP GLOBAL - The Millennial Generation: Reshaping the Advisory Conversation -

Articles

From The Globe & Mail - Managing column:

• The Many Faces of Control Freaks
• Preserving Your Sibling Connection: Set Up Rules to Resolve Sibling Conflicts
• How to Make the Best of an Accidental Partnership^®
• How Shared Leadership Can Work
• The Shareholders Agreement
• How to Run a Family Meeting Without a Feud Breaking Out
• How to Keep the Peace at the Cottage
• The Fighting Side of Family Business
• The Ins and Outs of Handling In-Laws
• How a Family Firm Should Hire an Outside CEO
• Want to Know a Secret? It Can Stunt Your Firm's Growth
• Outsiders on the Family Board Can Make a Difference
        Loss Control Bulletin   
        Family Business Quarterly    
• Family Firms Need Policy for Conflicts of Interest
• Teamwork, The Key to Long-Term Success
• Remember, Family Before Business

More articles by Aron

• Values, Myths and Rules - Successful Business Families -
  
• What's Your Ownership Perspective?
• Families in Business Together: Set up Rules to Develop a Sibling Bond
• Inactive Partners (Excerpt)
• Anger and the Accidental Partnership^®
• Your Children and Wealth Preservation
• Show Children – And Talk About – The Money
• How Values Affect the Family Business
• Creating a Board of Directors for the Family Firm: When Your Own Advice Isn't Good Enough!
• Team Building in the Family Firm
• Spinning Wheels in a Tenured Track
• Family Firm Governance!
• A Mystery Wrapped Inside an Enigma
• Family Management and Business Success!
• From Business Founder to Family Business
• Transfer, Transition, Tension and the Family Business
• Retreat to Win!
• Build Unity With a Family Council
• Planning for Continuity
• Getting Through the Holidays
• The Art of Fighting Fair
• Consulting to Family Business: Therapist or Advisor?
• STEP: Divisive reorganization in a complex family business – Continuity Analysis -
• The New Business Family

Family Ties^®

Family Ties^® was a free, newsletter published by Pervin Family Business Advisors Inc. to inform business family members and colleagues of trends and information that they may find beneficial to their business and to their families.

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Additional Resources

• Entrepreneurs in Every Generation by Allan R. Cohen and Pramodita Sharma (book review link)
• Building Entrepreneurs Across Generations Requires Influence by Allan R. Cohen and Pramodita Sharma (article link)
• Family Business Entrepreneurship by Wright, De Massis, Scholes, Hughes and Kotlar (link to PDF)
• Difficult Conversations Overview/Worksheet -
• Difficult Conversations by Stone, Patton and Heen (link to PDF excerpt from their book)
• Thanks for the Feedback (link to PDF interview with Stone and Heen)
• Find the Coaching in Criticism" by Heen and Stone (link to PDF article)
• Managing for the Long Run (link to Vimeo video)
• Chocolate Wars -
• Don't Lock Me Out - Life Story Interviews of Family Business Owners Facing Succession -
• McKinsey Quarterly - The Five Attributes Enduring Family Businesses -
• Wisp of a Man Still has Punch -
• Shareholder Agreements by Jules Lewy
• Relationships and Interpersonal Conflict by Ron Sparrow
• Focusing on Tax Strategies for the Family Business by Karen Slezak

In the Media...

• Planning: The Bridge Connecting Generations in a Family Business (268 KB) – By Jim Curley
• Family & Relationships By Sarah Hampson
• Essential Guides – Family Tools By The Year of the Canadian Entrepreneur
• Feeling at Home – Helping Outsiders Fit in to Your Family Business Goes a Long Way Toward Ensuring Your Firm's Success by Phil Perry
• Are you for Real? The Importance of Being Earnest by Judith Timson
• Save the Business, Even if you Can't Save the Marriage by Beth Marlin
• All in the Family, Even After the Marriage Ends by Gordon Pitts
• Keeping it All in the Family? Not Necessarily by Shirley Won
• Optometrist's Vision: Keep it all in the Family by Megan Ogilvie
• The Practicalities of Passing the Torch by Beth Marlin
• Entrepreneur's Diary – Chapter 42 – Family Business by Nancy Christie
• Interview: Meet Family Business Consultant Aron Pervin by The Business Owner Report
• Family Affairs – Succession is a Sticky Issue for Many Family Firms by Brian Meyer
• Family Firms Learn to Share Power by Margot Gibb-Clark
• How to Keep Top Performers on the Job by Andrew Poon
• Blood Ties & Business by Sandy Fife
• Consultant Smoothes Out Rough Spots by Tedd Whipp
• Resolving Interpersonal Conflict in The Financial Post
• When Your Own Advice Isn't Good Enough by Tim Haunn
• Winnipeg Business Scene by Martin Cash
• Transfer of Family Business is Tricky by Marty Hope
• Dad, When are you Going to Let Go? by Jennifer Low
• Keeping Business All in Family: Start Succession Planning Now to Avoid Problems Later by Bruce Gates
• Prevent Family War by Succession-Planning by Jerry Zeidenberg
• Family Firms Urged to Keep Things Businesslike by Bob Papoe
• Like Father Like Son by Rita DeMontis