Indeed, family-controlled businesses are the dominant form of business throughout much of the world.
Family businesses are truly very big business.
The four authors are seasoned management consultants whose focus has been family-controlled business enterprises. Out of their unavoidably practical work coupled with their academic research has emerged the development model of the family business presented in this book. Even in the healthiest organization, there are inevitable tensions between the goals, expectations and demands of these three axes. This perceptive analysis uses case studies liberally to examine the real life interactions between these three dimensions. When they are working poorly, families can create levels of tension, anger, confusion, and despair that can destroy good businesses and healthy families amazingly quickly .